Piper

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the gambling tables, the players were so empty, so tired, secretly hoping to vanish together into sleep and ... maybe wake on a very distant morning and hear nothing, whatever, no shouting or crooning, find all things changed.”
― Malcolm Cowley, Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince