Ashley Basile

“You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; you should fear someone who has only one book; and he considers it sacred, but he has never read it.”
― Anonymous

“What disease cannot do, people accomplish with astonishing ease.”
― Meg Elison, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

“But human beings need to speak, otherwise they lose their humanity, as I've realized these past few years.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Because I want to know! Sometimes, you can use what you know, but that's not what counts most. I want to know everything there is to know. Not because it's any use, but for the pleasure of knowing, and now I demand that you teach me everything you know, even if I will never be able to use it.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men