Emily

“We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton

“Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes”
― John Le Carre

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas