“Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.”
“To be rather than to seem.”
“She's always getting into trouble because she gets bored really really easily. [...]My mum says it's because Celia has an attention span the size of a sesame seed. Celia's mum says it's because Celia's identity is unfurling itself slowly, like a tulip bud, and it's a breathtakingly beautiful thing to see.”
“O quam salubre, quam iucundum et suave est sedere in solitudine et tacere et loqui cum Deo!”
“utres inflati ambulamus. minoris quam muscae sumus, muscae tamen aliquam uirtutem habent, nos non pluris sumus quam bullae.”