"Concealed behind strong barriers the heart becomes ice." - Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
"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)
“And she went into the sea because her core ached and there was no healing.”
May Sarton, from "She Shall Be Called Woman", Selected Poems
"...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
"He pours for me. The coffee is hot and thick and biting. Nearly deadly. Delicious." - Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer
"I wanted to see the whole world for myself. I wanted to see the whole range of possibilities. Your life is yours. It doesn't belong to anyone else. I wanted to know what it would mean to live life on my own terms." - Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Translation by Eric Ozawa)
"The sun shone in their eyes, half blinding them and turning their world to liquid gold." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust
"I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself." - Jennifer Saint, Ariadne
"Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short." - Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune