Reader

“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all you want from a person - sexual chemistry, let's say, or good conversation, or financial support, or intellectual compatibility, or niceness, or loyalty - and you get to pick three of them.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“The creator of Sir John Falstaff, of Hamlet, and of Rosalind also makes me wish I could be more myself. But that, as I argue throughout this book, is why we should read, and why we should read only the best of what has been written.”
― Harold Bloom, How to Read and Why

“We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.”
― Harold Bloom, How to Read and Why