Veronika

“I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more...”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Home is not where you are born;
home is where all your attempts
to escape cease.”
― Naguib Mahfouz

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