Julia

“I sit in the field, lost in the summer breeze among the grain and white clouds. My life is a holiday, everything is bliss, I am at peace with all living things.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems

“We, perhaps, were still innocent. And perhaps innocence has something crude, pedantic and affected about it, as if we were all dressed in plus fours and long socks.”
― Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline

“Dark girls, fair girls were patting their hair, tying ribbons again, tucking handkerchiefs down the fronts of their bodices, smoothing marble-white gloves. And because they were all laughing it seemed to Leila that they were all lovely.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party and Other Stories

“Not before?—not to-night or to-morrow morning or to-morrow noon or night? or the day after morning or noon? Can't you see yourself, without my telling you, what an eternity it is?”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening