Rachel Lesch

“... I revere you! I esteem and admire you above all human beings! you are the friend to whom my soul is attached as to its better half! you are the most amiable, the most perfect of women! and you are dearer to me than language has the power of telling.”
― Frances Burney, Evelina

“As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“She had a remarkable voice which didn’t go with her face at all, a melodious, quavering voice. She said, “If you go slowly, you risk getting sunstroke. But if you go too fast, you work up a sweat and then catch a chill inside the church.” She was right. There was no way out.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“If others had not been foolish, we should be so.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell