Julia H.

“Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.”
― Tony Kushner, Millennium Approaches

“Still, our conversations remained superficial. But this no longer puzzled me. For wasn’t there sufficient pleasure to be had in silent patience — in viewing others’ vices with compassion and enjoying their vulgarities? When we walked side by side, did I not feel his humanity most profoundly? Only now did I begin to understand why it was not always through words that people sought each other out and came to understand each other, and why some poets went to such lengths to seek out companions who could, like them, contemplate the beauties of nature in silence.”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat