✨ Helena ✨

“we read, if we have the true reader’s zest and plate, not to grow more knowing, but to be less pent up and bound within a little circle,—as those who take their pleasure, and not as those who laboriously seek instruction,—as a means of seeing and enjoying the world of men and affairs.”
― Woodrow Wilson, On Being Human

“You can't ever have my books.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“There is truth in stories,” said Arthur. “There is truth in one of your paintings, boy or in a sunset or a couplet from Homer. Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows

“Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.”
― Anoynmous