Julia H.

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“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

“I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame