Daniela

“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”
― ursula le guin