"'Look at all the colors,' she said. 'It's like the sky is on fire. Burning up the whole day. Nature has so much power if we just pay attention." - Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer
"But, I don't know, maybe it takes a long time to figure out what you're truly searching for. Maybe you spend your whole life to figure out a small part of it." - Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Translation by Eric Ozawa)
"Concealed behind strong barriers the heart becomes ice." - Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
""There is a saying,'What got you here won't get you there.'" "What does it mean?" I ask "That the same set of circumstances, beliefs, actions that got you to a moment won't get you to what comes next. If you want a different outcome, you have to behave differently. That you have to keep evolving."" - Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer
"...we knew we were lucky to live there. Or we thought we knew anyway; you can never know how lucky you are to have something until it's taken away." - Laura Shepperson, Phaedra
"There: soft fingers on vibrating steel, and a chord, shimmered into the air, nebulous and milky, like light from an old, old star. A voice: warm and low and gentle, a voice to cast spells, charm snakes, shape the course of dreams." - Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
“Heaven truly was an untouched stash of books, just waiting to be opened and read.” — Hester Fox, The Last Heir to Blackwood Library
Mary Oliver, from “We Should Be Well Prepared”, Red Bird
"And so my days drifted by, a joyous mix of sun worship, escaping from lessons, and the heavy leaden smell of paint." - Laura Shepperson, Phaedra