In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.
N. K Jemisin (A Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)There were ghosts in the room, and one, strangely and sadly, was the ghost of herself.
Virginia Woolf, Night and Day (via a-quiet-green-agreement)I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
Virginia Woolf
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