Gemma

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“It had to be a mad dream, one that would give her the courage she would need to discard the prejudices of a class that had not always been hers but had become hers more than anyone’s. It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Love in the Time of Cholera

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― Simone Weil