Polly

“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.”
― Roger Ebert

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
― Joseph Campbell

“We're born naked, and the rest is drag.”
― Rupaul, Lettin it All Hang Out: An Autobiography