Emma

“Kid, you'll move mountains.”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

“There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.”
― Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“-Why are you so sad?
- Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.”
― Leo Tolstoy