Madeleine

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House