⊹ Ellie ⊹

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“I'll miss myself so bad when I die.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star