Hannah

“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
― Terry Southern

“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

“Literature has the same impact as a match lit in the middle of a field in the middle of the night. The match illuminates relatively little, but it enables us to see how much darkness surrounds it.”
― William Faulkner