Albertha Viscome

“Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they are a dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“Kill, torture, burn! Just so long as it’s in the name of God, you’re all right. What a lot of hypocrisy! Don’t give me faith! It’s nothing!”
― James Clavell, King Rat

“Monsters are made”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.”
― Carl Bernstein, All the President’s Men