“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” - A Room of One's Own

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Who has the rights to the story of a place? Are these rights earned, bought, fought and died for? Or are they given? Are they automatic, like an assumption? Self-renewing? Are these rights a token of citizenship belonging to those who stay in the place or to those who...

Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength. - An Ember in the Ashes

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Norwegian Wood