Lauriel

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism