Francesca Ricci

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe