Monika

“Toteż kiedy czasami otrzymuję listy proszące o wskazówkę, co czytać, to z reguły odpowiadam: wszystko. Jeżeli się pragnie wyciągnąć pożytek z czytania, wyciąga się go z każdego czytania. Bo czytanie to jest odnajdywanie własnych bogactw i własnych możliwości przy pomocy cudzych słów (...) Ponieważ czytanie książki to rozszerzanie świata czytelnika - pomnożenie go o świat pisarza. Jeżeli nie o cały świat pisarza (za wielkie to wymaganie!), to o cały świat zamknięty w dziele pisarza.”
― Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Rozmowy o książkach

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is given to us.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch