Fia

“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”
― Donna Tartt

“I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“No star is ever lost we once have seen,
We always may be what we might have been
Since Good, though only thought,
Has life and breath -
God's life - can always be redeemed from death.
And evil in its nature is decay,
And any hour may blot it all away.
The hope that lost in some far distance seems,
May be the truer life, and this the dream.”
― Adelaide Anne Procter