Alex

“Twelve scrap books, telling us what wonderful or horrible or mediocre people we were”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy...it is that best part of our souls that we break off and give each other, and God has a special dispensation for it, angels to guard its making and its preservation.”
― Sarah Smith , Chasing Shakespeares

“And between us now there is this continual underground struggle over something trivial and nebulous that won't abate and has lasted nearly as long as the two of us have known each other. "I love you.”
― Joseph Heller, Something Happened

“The process in which a writer is compelled to counterfeit his true feelings is exactly the opposite of that which the man of society is compelled to counterfeit his. The artist disguises in order to reveal; the man of society disguises in order to conceal”
― Yukio Mishima, Forbidden Colors