Jessica

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain