Ilaria Cacciola

“Among the many subjects which interested me, I dwelt especially upon antiquity, for our own age has always repelled me, so that, had it not been for the love of those dear to me, I should have preferred to place myself in spirit in other ages, and consequently I delighted in history.”
― Francesco Petrarca

“But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire. She now knew the smallness of the passions that art exaggerated.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“But as the girl timidly accosted him, he gave a convulsive movement and saved his
respectability by a vigorous side-step. He did not risk it to save a soul. For how was he to
know that there was a soul before him that needed saving?”
― Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories

“I rushed to the living room to protect myself from I don't know what, behind my best friend, a book.”
― Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis