A room without books is like a body without a soul.Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Dreams and consequences
Dreams are heavens, where we sin without consequence.Sister Agatha - Dracula (2020)
Interest imbalance
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women. Virginia Woolf
A Prince in waiting
A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.Walter Mosley, The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1)
Bookcase Maketh Man
A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll need to know about him.Walter Mosley, The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1)
People’s speciality
People are always gonna talk, it's their specialty.Theodore Finch, All The Bright Places
When you know, you know
No Tom, you can't fall in love at first sight, I did.Jez Morrow, Force of Law
Night & day
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Modern triviality
A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting,Walter Mosley, The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1)
Choose your Poison
"One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose."Charles Baudelaire
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