Elena

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass; we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

“When I meet people, I always imagine what world hides inside them.”
― Ashley Schumacher, Amelia Unabridged

“Be a good neighbor and you will have good neighbors”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Comfort Me With Apples