Alvina

“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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