Summer Lea

“Because as far as she was concerned, there was no in-between: She wanted all or nothing, illogically, irrationally, even though something inside her knew that nothing would be too hard, and all was impossible.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.”
― Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose

“Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.”
― Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela