Teodora Paslaru

“Her restraint and control taught me a lesson I have not strayed from to this day. You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“So many people chased after me in that time, calling my name, asking me to take them with me. Then there was the small percentage who called me casually over and whispered with their tightend voices.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in excange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood, and the belief tat, if he succeds in not letting anyone dicover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of papaer that surely will outlive hime. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“If nothing else, they died fast and they were warm. The boy from the plane, I thought. The one with the teddy bear. Where was Rudy's confort? Where was someone to alleviate this robbery of his life? Who was there to soothe him as life's rug was snatched from under his sleeping feet?”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief