Carra

“But I am the songbird running out of air, and I must breathe.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Dreams, as we all know, are very queer things: some parts are presented with appalling vividness, with details worked up with the elaborate finish of jewellery, while others one gallops through, as it were, without noticing them at all, as, for instance, through space and time. Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams, what utterly incomprehensible things happen to it!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

“Too many books. Too few centuries.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight