Inocencia Matyas

“One cannot live any longer on refrigerators, on politics, on balance-sheets and cross-word puzzles. One cannot live any longer without poetry, colour and love.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

“She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is on her knees. She puts her hands on her thighs and breathes in the smell of the sulphur. She imagines she slap breathes in light.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen

“you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell