Ashley

“She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Speak your mind even if your voice shakes.”
― Maggie Kuhn

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You