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

“Pieter would be pleased with the rest of the coins, the debt now settled. I would not have cost him anything. A maid came free.”
― Tracy Chevalier, Girl With a Pearl Earring

“Most of the time she could slip into other people, so to speak, and discover what they really meant and who they actually were behind their words. But she couldn't do it with this visitor. No matter how often she tried to understand his thoughts, she always got the feeling that she was falling into empty darkness, as if there weren't even a person there at all.”
― Michael Ende, Momo

“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