Phantom Reader

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower