"Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat
Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast,
Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest,
And hiding their tossing manes and their tumultuous feet." #WBYeats

"Night is coming!
The red swift clouds of the hurricane
Yon declining sun have overtaken,
The clash of the hail sweeps over the plain--
Night is coming!"
#PercyByssheShelley #TheTwoSpiritsAnAllegory

"Everyone dies eventually. I think it's better to die clean."

"You're my other half of the sky."

"Harry, there is never a perfect answer in this messy, emotional world. Perfection is beyond the reach of humankind, beyond the reach of magic. In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe."

"I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough."

"I would be a mermaid fair..."

"Books are more than doctors, of course."

"You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive, not exist. Live."

"You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love."

"Other people's houses were always fascinating. As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the atmosphere, and so discovered something about the personalities of the people who lived there."

"I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die."
#GabrielOak

"No, sir; I am content."

"You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

Loved this book!

"Go thou my incense upward from this hearth..." #HenryDavidThoreau #LightwingedsmokeIcarianbird