Lizzie

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

“The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.”
― Franz Kafka

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
― Franz Kafka