Izzy Verdery

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Try to do good for other people. Your happiness lies there.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Fifty Degrees Below

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Well,' said Pippin. I have known of him all my short life, as you might say; and lately I have travelled far with him. But there is much to read in that book, and I cannot claim to have seen more than a page or two. Yet perhaps I know him as well as any but a few. Aragorn was the only one of our Com-pany, I think, who really knew him.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King