Cinette Santangelo

“I mean really if you can't count on your best friend to go to jail with you, what good are they?”
― Janice Hardy, Blue Fire

“Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.”
― Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

“Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.”
― Morris Gleitzman, Grace