Francesca

“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

“Hope is a bird that sings the songs of possibilities from the deepness of the heart.”
― Debasish Mridha

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

“I think of what Hobie said: beauty alters the grain of reality. And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch