Camille

“Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush