“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” — Franz Kafka · Letter to Oskar Pollak, January 27, 1904
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” — George R.R. Martin · A Dance with Dragons, 2011
“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.” — William Shakespeare · Sonnet 116, c. 1609
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” — Oscar Wilde
“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.” — Anton Chekhov
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott · Little Women, 1868
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.” — Joan Crawford