Tanuki

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“What hath night to do with sleep?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth