Christine

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing knowledge as your heart
falls out of your mouth.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies