Elisa

“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, the Whale

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”
― Carlos Fuentes

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader