Ashley Birrell

“He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak