Ceili D

“For there’s nothing more foolish than a man who thinks he’s clever, and nothing more wise than the man who knows that he is nothing.”
― Marguerite de Navarre, The Heptameron

“A handsome young knight is madly in love with a princess, and she too is in love with him, though she seems not to be entirely aware of it. Despite the friendship that blossoms between them, or perhaps because of that very friendship, the young knight finds himself so humbled and speechless that he is totally unable to bring up the subject of his love. Until one day he asks the princess point-blank: Is it better to speak or to die?”
― Marguerite de Navarre, HEPTAMERON

“Is it better to speak or to die?”
― Marguerite de Navarre, The Heptameron

“But I think you’ll see in this book a girl who does find herself, not by success in the music industry but by taking the opportunity to sensibly and truly lose her marbles. The thing being that after losing them, one finds them and plays the game better.”
― Sinead O'Connor, Rememberings