John Connolly

"For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be."

John Connolly (The Book of Lost Things)

Edith Wharton

"Each time you happen to me all over again. "

Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence)

Anaïs Nin

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."