Sian Lile-Pastore

“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”
― Raymond Carver

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“Never under estimate a pretty little liar.”
― sara shepard

“There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.”
― Edna O'Brien, Country Girl