“An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.”

“Often again she is resolved to promise her skill to the unhappy man, then again refuses, and is determined rather to perish with him; and she cries that never will she yield to so base a passion…”
Saepe suas misero promittere destinat artes, denegat atque una potius decernit in ira ac neque tam turpi cessuram semet amori proclamat.

Gaius Valerius Flaccus book Argonautica

“I saw an aged woman turn
To her wretched home again —
All day she had asked charity,
And all day asked in vain....”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

“She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

“Recommended prayers cannot attain the pleasures of Allah for you when obligatory prayers are left unattended.”

Ali book Nahj al-Balagha

“Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.”

Alice Munro (1931) Canadian novelist

“In heaven, all ordinary thought is higher and more melodious than Milton's song. Then, would he add another verse to any strain that he had left unfinished here?”

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)

“Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

“At the end of the day, it would be wise to turn all of your focus and energy on achieving mental over physical strength.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor