Gohar Aslam

“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.”
― J.K. Rowling

“This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”
― Voltaire

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero