Nicole

“Literature not only illuminated another’s experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection. My brief forays into the formal ethics of analytic philosophy felt dry as a bone, missing the messiness and weight of real human life.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“The whole future---I thought---will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

“In the happiest times of my life, I have reached for my books. In the saddest times of my life, my books have reached back.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“What kind of life exists without language?”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air