Tiina

“What is more natural than that a solidarity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader and Reader, thanks to the book?”
― Italo Calvino

“In the middle, the river was a deep green, scattered with rocks poking their noses up for a breath. The water charged around them, creating eddies and whirlpools. Closer to the bank, the current dragged lengths of weed along with it so it seemed that long-haired women swam just under the surface, never coming up for air.”
― Claire Fuller, Our Endless Numbered Days

“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.”
― Gena Showalter, The Darkest Night