#quotes by authors
“Your soul is a beautiful thing, child,” replied the man’s voice, “and I thank you. No emperor ever received so fair a gift. The angels wept tonight.” –Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
I think this quote is so beautiful
…what we call fate originates in ourselves, in humankind, and does not work on us from the outside.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
- Saul Bellow