by Lisa Azarmi | Mar 1, 2022 | ACCEPTANCE, AWAKENING, CLASSIC LITERATURE
“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.” Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary, 1865. Amedeo Modigliani – Young Woman in a Yellow Dress, Madame...
by Lisa Azarmi | Feb 28, 2022 | CLASSIC LITERATURE, FEMALE PORTRAIT, READING
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own, 1929. Harold Knight – The Green Book.
by Lisa Azarmi | Feb 15, 2022 | CHILDRENS STORY BOOK, CLASSIC LITERATURE
“You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic…”Lewis Carroll – The Mad Hatter, Alice in Wonderland, 1865. Charles Robinson – “What day of the month is it?”...
by Lisa Azarmi | Feb 11, 2022 | CHILDRENS STORY BOOK, CLASSIC LITERATURE, INSPIRATIONAL
“I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.” Frances Hodgson Burnett – A Little Princess, 1888.Thomas Hickey – Portrait of...
by Lisa Azarmi | Dec 31, 2021 | BIRD, CHILDRENS STORY BOOK, CLASSIC LITERATURE, HEARTBREAK
“Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart’s-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy,...
by Lisa Azarmi | Dec 18, 2021 | BOOKS, CHILDREN, CHILDRENS STORY BOOK, CLASSIC LITERATURE
“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).” Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass, 1865. Catrin Welz Stein – Hello Alice.
