Eleanor

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

“I have often wondered what was the source of her beauty, her radiance. It’s not the size of one’s nose, the color of one’s skin, the shape of one’s lips or eyes that make one beautiful or ugly. So what is it? Can you, as a woman, tell me?
I shook my head.
I will tell you: It’s love. Love makes us beautiful. Do you know a single person who loves and is loved, who is loved unconditionally and who, at the same time, is ugly? There’s no need to ponder the question. There is no such person.”
― Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.”
― Primo Levi, The Periodic Table