Emma

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

“To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald, The Gate of Angels

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal