“Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner”

“You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.”

“I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!”

“From the outside looking in, everything looked completely ordinary. The problem was being on the inside, looking out.”

“For there are no ordinary moments. There are only precious feelings and memories we piece together one by one. We call it a lifetime.~~ Riley Rosemont, from "Roses in Winter" by Leslie D. Stuart”

“I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.”