Elisa

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

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

“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