Katharina

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore