Jessica Gartner

“The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience