citiesofstars

“There was a star danced, and under that was I born.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”
― Joseph Campbell