Laura

“Love is a rebellious bird,
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain,
if it suits him not to come.”
― Ludovic Halévy

“Nothing comes without a price.”
― Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing

“O, ik weet het niet,
maar besta, wees mooi.
Zeg: kijk, een vogel
en leer me de vogel zien.
Zeg: het leven is een brood
om in te bijten en de appels zien nog rood
van plezier, en nog, en nog, zeg iets.
Leer me huilen, en als ik huil,
leer me zeggen: het is niets.”
― Herman de Coninck

“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch