chirysalis

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“At her age, she reckoned, with the things her eyes had seen, her ears had heard, her mouth spoken, her skin felt, and her heart suffered, she had been through enough to make anyone weary.”
― Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History