dani

“When I try to picture for myself what a happy life might look like, the picture hasn't changed very much since I was a child - a house with flowers and trees around it, and a river nearby, and a room full of books, and someone there to love me, that's all. Just to make a home there, and to care for my parents when they grow older. Never to move, never to board a plane again, just to live quietly and then be buried in the earth.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Nora.” He just barely smiles. “You’re in books. Of course you don’t have a life. None of us do. There’s always something too good to read.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“There’s an alternate universe where I never left”
― Tia Williams, Seven Days in June

“She was an artist, like you. With a—I don’t know how to say this well—an ego that is large but self-esteem that is small?”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein