Confused and 17. I wish I wrote more.
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us... we need the books that affect us like a disaster; that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us." --Franz Kafka, Letter to Oskar Pollak, 27 January 1904