Melanie

“Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.”
― A.S. Byatt, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen

“When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world.”
― Mary Oliver, The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem