Anni

“Having Bob gave me a chance to interact with people.... Cats are notoriously picky about who they like. Seeing me with my cat softened me in [others] eyes. It humanized me. Especially after I'd been so dehumanized. In some ways it was giving me back my identity. I had been a non-person; I was becoming a person again.”
― James Bowen, A Street Cat Named Bob

“Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

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

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet