Bookshelf

“So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“the cheapest, most pleasurable way for a country of strangers to get to know each other and the rest of the world is through reading.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017

“And maybe if I showed that I wasn’t giving up, other people would take heart and keep fighting, too.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir!

Loosely translated:

It is heavenly, when I overcome
My earthly desires
But nevertheless, when I'm not successful,
It can also be quite pleasurable.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina