Jasmine

“(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams