Ria

“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton