Elizabete

“What’s wrong with this world?’ Jesse asked. ‘Tell me what’s wrong with it? In the mornings the sun dawns, in the evenings it sets. The days pass peacefully. We don’t have serious ailments, we’re not starving. We have our homes.”
― Nora Ikstena, Soviet Milk

“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

“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

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