Daniela

“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

“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

“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”
― Ursula K. LeGuin