Giada

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
― Russell Banks, Continental Drift

“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey