Emily

“Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It is much more important to dig a half-buried crow out of the ground," he said, "than to send petitions to a president.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on the subject of human liberty.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only on condition that you refrain from reading such notions as "fictive," "fabricated," and "untrue to life" into the word "novelistic." Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being