Allie

“Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses