Amanda

“If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die”
― Matsuo Bashō

“But perhaps you could call her perilous because she's so strong in herself. You , you could dash yourself to pieces on her, like a ship on a rock, or drown yourself, like a Hobbit in a river, but neither rock nor river would be to blame.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton