Lucy Batista

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke