Anne Avlis

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert