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“ The Song of Wandering Aengus I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled…

— Anonymous

“There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind. These…

— Hugh Howey

“It was a something found that had long been sought for by a thousand restless yearnings and vague desires, less of the heart than…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by habit and the familiar quiet of early…

— Stella Gibbons

“But she went and fetched some marigolds from her own little garden, and put them in a vase on the chest of drawers, for…

— Joyce Lankester Brisley

“She was living in bad sociery; and, imaginary though it was, its influence affected her, for she was feeding heart and fancy on dangerous…

— Louisa May Alcott

“You’ve been in my head now,” she said. “Did you get a look at the things I did to survive this life?” “Glimpses,” he…

— Leigh Bardugo

“She found a mossy hollow between the roots of a tree and, putting on her mackintosh, huddled down in her makeshift bed. She ate…

— William Boyd

“Imaginings and resonances and pain and small longings and prejudices. They mean nothing against the resolute hardness of the sea. They meant less than…

— Colm Tóibín

“But she loved studying and books, the way other people love wine for its power to make you forget. What else did she have?…

— Irène Némirovsky

“[From Old Mortality ] ...religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.”

— Katherine Anne Porter

“But she feared time itself... the dwindling of life; how year by year her share was sliced; how, little the margin that remained was…

— Virginia Woolf