Henry Chavarria

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin.”
― Sara Nelson, So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson