Areeb Ahmad (Bankrupt_Bookworm)

“In the long run, stories are probably no less valuable than money, but in the short run they have their decided limitations.”
― Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1

“Time is the element in which we exist... We are either borne along by it or drowned in it.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Marya

“And perhaps that is the final, most devastating truth. The gods care nothing for ascetic impositions on mortal behaviour. Care nothing for rules of conduct, for the twisted morals of temple priests and monks. Perhaps indeed they laugh at the chains we wrap around ourselves – our endless, insatiable need to find flaws within the demands of life. Or perhaps they do not laugh, but rage at us. Perhaps our denial of life’s celebration is our greatest insult to those whom we worship and serve.”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe