Ashley

“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev