whimsical patience

"We climbed a long series of flights of steps to a vantage point where the view opened out before us. Here and there could be seen terraces enclosed by latticework; tiny, well-tended gardens in some level spots: rooftops and light, airy wooden pavilions painted and carved with whimsical patience."

- Gérard de Nerval

Aurélia

caught inside

"People have plenty of pity in them for the infirm and the blind, they really have love in reserve. I'd often sensed that love they have in reserve. There's an enormous lot of it, and no one can say different. But it's a shame that people should go on being crummy with so much love in reserve. It just doesn't come out, that's all. It's caught inside and there it stays, it doesn't do them a bit of good. They die of love inside."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Journey to the End of the Night