Doronike

“And she is the reader
who browses the shelf
and looks for new worlds
but finds herself.”
― Laura Purdie Salas, BookSpeak!: Poems about Books

“Tautas dzīve ir kā bulta. Ir brīdis, kad liktenis ir tautas ziņā, kad sabiedriskie spēki ir nospriegoti kā uzvilkts loks, kad pati tauta izvēlas mērķi, kad bultas lidojums un tālums ir paredzams. Kad bulta ir izšauta, to atgriezt nevar nekāds spēks, ne lūgšanas, ne pavēles.”
― Alberts Bels, Cilvēki laivās

“If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending...
But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone.
You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others-- why they must dream up new and marvelous spheres, or long to live elsewhere, beyond this dominion... but that is not my business. We are all different, I suppose. All I ever wanted was to know this world. I can say now, as I reach my end, that I know quite a bit more of it than I knew when I arrived. Moreover, my little bit of knowledge has been added to all the other accumulated knowledge of history-- added to the great library, as it were. That is no small feat, sir. Anyone who can say such a thing has lived a fortunate life.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things