Renée

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson