Ava

“In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for.”
― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha