Antonietta

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain