Taylor Fecat

“Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.”
― Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War

“Live while you live, then die and be done with.”
― John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud

“Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.”
― Ovid

“And my own feelings? Shame. For I had lied. Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued Jane Eyre over the anonymous stranger with his hand on the lever. Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life. Of course. Unlike Miss Winter, I had been ashamed to say so.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale