Ellen

“I’m afraid that something will loosen in my psyche and I will simply cease to have power over myself.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“That was his skill. Like a travel agent of the imagination.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“Isn’t it funny that the language for sex and art and religion is all the same? But I suppose they do share certain qualities. They take you beyond yourself”
― Alexandra Andrews, The Fine Art of Lying

“The smell of woodsmoke because you were reading in front of a cozily crackling fire; the smell of lavender laundry soap from the lambswool blanket tucked around your knees; the smell of a cat because in a perfect library you’d have a cat purring at your feet as you read the best book in the world in front of a crackling fire with tea and chocolate chip cookies on the arm of your perfect reading chair.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library