MJ

“MANY YEARS AGO I REALIZED THAT A BOOK, a novel, is a dream that asks itself to be written in the same way we fall in love with someone: the dream becomes impossible to resist, there’s nothing you can do about it, you finally give in and succumb even if your instincts tell you to run the other way because this could be, in the end, a dangerous game—someone will get hurt.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

“He’d been the only Wolcott besides Elsa who loved reading, and he’d frequently taken her side in family disagreements. Don’t worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“And he answered that the beauty of the cosmos derives not only from unity in variety, but also from variety in unity.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“There are some decisions, even moral ones, that are formed in regions below conscious thought.”
― Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me