• a humming wind
• homemade bread baking in the oven
• the purr of my cat
• a tight hug from my love
• classical music playing in the background
• saturday mornings
• any soup made by my mom

“Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”

“... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.”

“Part of me knows one more day won't do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”

“I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.”

“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independe...

She was used to drinking peppermint tea in the late afternoon — a ritual of gratitude for the day that had passed, and a way to prepare for the night to come.

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That fairy talked incessantly about autumn leaves, and how her collection was growing absurdly large with each passing day.

The Elven King watched in silence as she chattered incessantly, describing her clever tricks for gathering those vibrant, orange, autumnal leaves. He then cast a spell over the forest, ensuring that for an entire year, autumn would never arrive, leaving the snooty fairy with no chance to collect any more leaves for her collection.

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Once upon a time, there was a little girl with hazel eyes and freckles that adorned her lovely, youthful face like stars in...

♡ i am

• brazilian
• born on dececember 19th, in the late 90s, on a warm spring day
• addicted to tea
• a psychologist by education, and a gardener at heart
• married to miguel, and mother of joaquim
• a reader since childhood
• a lover of croissants

♡ i love

• books set in the 19th century
• hair ribbons
• curtains and all sorts of lace linens
• porcelain dolls (I only own two)
• games with a memorable soundtrack
• autumn, with its mild weather
• the scent of vanilla
• lit candles after five in the afternoon
• houses with ivy-covered walls

• buy a house in the countryside with a backyard
• write an entire book
• grow my own herbs
• travel to cornwall
• go on a trip with just my mom and me
• take joaquim to disney
• be financially stable

♡ books read

• The Shell Seekers
• Coming Home
• September
• The Empty House
• Wild Mountain Thyme
• Snow in April
• The Day of the Storm
• Another View
• Flowers in the Rain and Other Stories

♡ to be read

• Winter Solstice
• Voices in Summer
• The End of Summer
• The Carousel
• Sleeping Tiger
• Under Gemini
• The Blue Bedroom: & Other Stories
• A Place Like Home: Short Stories