Philina

“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons