Valentine Eakles

“Have learned that the most precious thing is a place where you can be as you are, where someone can see you as your true self.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Taming of the Queen

“We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“The moral universe had not so much decayed here. It had been inverted, like some black hole, under the pressure of all the earth’s malice—a place where tribes and histories were sucked in and vaporized, and language flew inside out. The underground chambers were named “disinfection cellars,” the aboveground chambers “bathhouses,”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List

“No one had ever had such a friend—so affectionate, so loyal, and so skillful.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte's Web