Marie

“What does a word mean? And a life? In the end, it seems to me, the same thing. Just as a word can have many dimensions, many nuances, great complexity, so, too, can a person, a life. Language is the mirror, the principal metaphor. Because ultimately the meaning of a word, like that of a person, is boundless, ineffable.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words: A Memoir

“Books are the best means—private, discreet, reliable—of overcoming reality.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words: A Memoir

“Lex malla, lex nulla. A bad law is no law.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Your lives have value, and your deaths have none.”
― Krista Ritchie, Long Way Down