Christina Rossetti, From Poems And Prose; “An Afterthought”

Fade Into You - Mazzy Star / Slow Like Honey - Fiona Apple

2020, a summary

Alexander Blok, translated by Robert Chandler, from a poem titled "She Came Out in the Frost,"

“There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.”

— Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem

There was a star riding through clouds one night and I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves (Annotated)

“You came into my life — not as one comes to visit … but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to Véra Nabokov, Letters to Véra, ed. and transl. Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014)

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

— Maya Angelou

“I am in a quiet way blooming.”

— May Sarton, Recovering: A Journal

“With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.”

— Leo Tolstoy (1847-1910), Anna Karenina