She‘d read the dictionary all the way through. No one told her you weren‘t supposed to.

“[...] people like you and me — we win simply by surviving yet another day.”

”That‘s the nature of any kind of rot. If you don‘t stop it, it keeps going. It will keep going until it destroys the very organism that feeds it.”

The pain comes and it goes but the anger always remains.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

I haven't been a very good reader lately. In fact it's a hobby I have nearly abandoned in favor of other things. Decided to do the 50-book challenge this year and warm up with an old friend. (Actually, I'm also still trying to finish Germinal, but that might just put me off reading entirely.)

“We are never quits with those who oblige us for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude”