Fernanda

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe

“It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“Everybody knows that no healthy person would take up writing novels. Healthy people do healthy things. All this darned hoopla and hot air about literature—what is it really but mental derangement run through a printing press?”
― Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, The Rabbit Back Literature Society