Francesca

“isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“What I know I could put into a pack
as if it were bread and cheese, and carry it
on one shoulder,

important and honorable, but so small!
While everything else continues, unexplained

and unexplainable.”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2

“free time is an illusion. It’s what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.”
― Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure

“When you write and when you read, you are living in a different world.”
― Debasish Mridha