Hannah

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink