Marian

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet