Elizabete

“To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.”
― Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
― Angela Carter

“If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I search in the history books for the things I was never told. I can’t read enough; I always want to read. My hunger for knowledge is never sated.”
― Anne Berest, The Postcard: A Novel