Hannah and Nicholas

“I shall commence, I think, with a slight exaggeration and go on from there into an outright lie.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Billy Taupe had crossed her, and he’d ended up dead.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Trunga Rinpoche told this story about how he once was sitting in a garden with Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of his most important teachers. They were just sitting enjoying their time together in the beautiful setting, hardly saying anything, simply happy to be there with each other. Then Khyentse Rinpoche pointed and said, "They call that a 'tree'," and both of them roared with laughter. For me this is a wonderful illustration of the freedom and enjoyment that await us when we stop being fooled by our labels.”
― Pema Chödrön, Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World

“That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlarge. That serves to explain in part the necessity that women so often are to men.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own