Nicole

“So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be.”
― Iain M. Banks, Excession

“Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.”
― Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons