" The holy secret to time spent in quiet... to seek an inner place of hush in which she may know her own heart." {Sarah Clarkson}

" So we open Jane Eyre; and in two pages every doubt is swept clean from our minds. ...Nor is exhilaration short lived. It rushes through us the entire volume, without giving us time to think, letting us lift our eyes from the page. So intense is our absorption that if someone moves in the room the movement seems to take place not there but up in Yorkshire. The writer has us by the hand, forces us along her road, makes us see what she sees, never leaves us for a moment or all

" I did not think of language as the means to self-description. I thought of it as a door - a thousand opening doors! - past myself. I...

" Books never really end. They stay with you, good or bad, and can float in your mind without warning. Years later, the faint embers of...

" He had the indistinct feeling that the priest's forgiveness was the greatest assault and most tremendous attack he had ever...

" The deliciousness of discovering a masterwork. The beauty of the first sentences, the 'what is this?', the 'how can it be?', the first...

" Ivy had always cherished books for the stillness they allowed in a world that valued fast, unforgiving progress regardless of the human...

" The camera unites my hands & mind. I am utterly absorbed, rapt, fully present and intensely alive. This alignment of body & senses in...

" There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea." ​ {Henry James} ​ ​ one...