Ashley Messier

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath