Christina

“May I ask you something?" Dr Greysteel nodded."Are you not afraid that it will go out?"

"What will go out?" asked Dr Greysteel.

"The candle," Strange gestured to Dr Greysteel's forehead. "The candle inside your head.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin

“The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.”
― C.S. Forester, Hornblower and the Atropos

“Hornblower worked as hard to conceal his human weaknesses as some men worked to conceal ignoble birth.”
― C.S. Forester, Lieutenant Hornblower