Alice

“If I destroy you, what business is it of yours?”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Mrs. Wix gave a sidelong look. She still had room for wonder at what Maisie knew.”
― Henry James, What Maisie Knew

“And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive