Jennifer

“Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.”
― Susan Sontag, Literature Is Freedom

“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
― Simone Weil

“You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.”
― Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley