Franziska

“To exhaustion and beyond they prayed, to that glittering place where the flesh dies and is born again, where all is agony, and finally, just as La Inca was feeling her spirit begin to loose itself from its earthly pinions, just as the circle began to dissolve--”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I have heard that in the New Zealand native tradition, the soul, when it dies, becomes a star.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries