Violet ♡

“For how could there ever be an Adamic language? The thought now made him laugh. There was no innate, perfectly comprehensible language; there was no candidate, not English, not French, that could bully and absorb enough to become one. Language was just difference. A thousand different ways of seeing, of moving through the world. No; a thousand worlds within one. And translation – a necessary endeavour, however futile, to move between them.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“He liked the smell of books - a spicy smell, faintly fabulous. He would sometimes walk through the adult stacks, looking at the thousands of volumes and imagining a world of lives inside each one.”
― Stephen King, It

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