Maram

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
― Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

“You know how the stories go. Interesting things only happen to pretty girls; you will be home by sunset.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
― Amy Bloom, Away

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
― Angela Carter