Nadia

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
― Virginia Woolf