❝ For what is worth: it is never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you are proud of, and if you find you are not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.❞ — F. Scott Fitzgerald

❝ É curioso como não sei dizer quem sou. Quer dizer, sei-o bem, mas não posso dizer. Sobretudo tenho medo de dizer porque no momento em que tento falar não só não exprimo o que sinto como o que sinto se transforma lentamente no que eu digo.❞ — Clarice Lispector

❝ It wasn't the kind of yearning they describe in movies and books, it was ugly and desperate. I wanted something to hold on to, a breath, a whisper, a hand. I'm sorry I dug my nails too deep but when a ship is sinking, it'll tear everything apart (including itself), just to survive.❞ — Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

❝ Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?❞ — Richard Paul Evans

❝ ...It is sad, of course, to forget. But it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten. To remember when no one else does.❞ — V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

❝ To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.❞ — W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

❝ What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.❞ — Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

❝ Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted.❞ — Abraham Verghese