Amaldus Nielsen - Aftenstemning, 1878
i just want to live in a cottage right on the edge of the forest and the coast, close enough to town to walk with a little basket for groceries and idk work in a local bookshop. like please. thats the dream
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
- John Steinbeck, East of Eden
in many ways she was as cool and competent as henry; tough-minded and solitary in her habits, and in many ways as aloof. out in the country it was not uncommon to discover that she had slipped away, alone, out to the lake, maybe, or down to the cellar, where once i found her sitting in the big marooned sleigh, reading, her fur coat thrown over her knees. things would have been terribly strange and unbalanced without her. She was the Queen who finished out the suit of dark jacks, dark king, and joker
“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar