Anna

“Bad times traditionally produce good books.”
― Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

“Surely it must be smaller than my own far greater country across the waters, where each field is so thick with legend and myth and ancient battles that one step is not merely in space, unlike in this new world, but also through layers of time. Here there is nothing, only land, all the earth and mountains and trees remain innocent of story. This place is itself a sheet of parchment yet to be written upon,”
― Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

“To be sure, no novel will deceive the best type of reader...He can enter, while he reads, into each author's point of view without either accepting or rejecting it, suspending when necessary his disbelief and (what is harder) his belief.”
― C.S. Lewis

“it seems desperately attractive to be unrooted and breathing nothing but your own solitude”
― Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such