Isabelle Mortensen

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

“It was in looking up at him her aspect had caught its lustre - the light repeated in her eyes beamed first out of his.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.”
― Fuyumi Ono, The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow

“No connection, you would agree. But things can come together in strange ways. The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel. All wheels must have a hub. A ferris wheel has one, as the sun is the hub of the wheeling calendar. Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed, for without them, nothing holds together. But sometimes people find this out too late.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting