Nadia

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“The people who teach us something retain a particularly vivid place in our memories.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death