Lese lust

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“Books. The more I thought about how to stop and get myself back together as one sane, whole person, the more I thought about books. I thought about escape. Not running to escape but reading to escape. Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that “words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.” That was how I wanted to use books: as an escape back to life. I wanted to engulf myself in books and come up whole again.”
― Nina Sankovitch, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

“(...), und wieder einmal staunte ich darüber, wie geschickt die menschliche Intelligenz darin sein kann, unintelligente Gedanken zu formulieren.”
― Stefan Moster, Die Unmöglichkeit des vierhändigen Spiels

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours