Alexandra

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV