Nicola

“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief