Katrina

“She was on the verge of losing hope when a plume of white smoke shot up from the pile. With no wind to disperse it, the smoke became an unbroken thread rising straight toward the sky. The pile must have caught fire somewhere, but still there was no sign of flames.”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.”
― Kiera Cass, The Heir

“We look not at the things which are what you could call seen, but the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Hatsumi had some quality that could send a tremor through your heart. It was nothing forceful. The power she exerted was a subtle thing, but it called forth deep resonances.”
― Haruki Murakami