Becca

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
― Joseph Joubert

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert