Jasmine

“Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us.”
― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

“Pride is a wonderful terrible thing a seed that bears two vines life and death.”
― James Hurst, The Scarlet Ibis

“But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

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