Ellie

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“And, like children, you will swallow without protest everything bitter I shall give you only when it is carefully coated with the thick syrup of adventure.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“I ask you: what did people- from their very infancy- pray for, dream about, long for? They longed for someone to tell them, once and for all, the meaning of happiness, and then to bind them to it with a chain.”
― Yevgeni Zamyatin

“To survive,
know the past.
Let it touch you.
Then let
The past
Go.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents