Sofia Pridham

“He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself, and fling the curses on his neighbours.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“Tran Thi Thu Van, the writer from Saigon, spent those weeks wandering in the wasteland of the battle trying to stay alive. She would later record scene after scene of horror in her book Mourning Headband for Hue.”
― Mark Bowden, Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

“An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.”
― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy