Alejandro

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock