Lora

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Even now I'm well aware that if I allowed myself to listen to him I couldn't resist but would have the same experience again. He makes me admit that, in spite of my great defects, I neglect myself and instead get involved in Athenian politics. So I force myself to block my ears and go away, like someone escaping from the Sirens, to prevent myself sitting there beside him till I grow old.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?”
― Jane Austen, Emma