Alice

“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
― Lewis Carroll