Marina

“Culture isn't just what we encourage but what we allow to happen.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“Having a physical reaction to a lack of book is not unusual.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots. So it needs saying from the outset that it’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles