Heather

“Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.”
― Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders

“A child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth”
― African Proverb