Comrade Katie's Literary Wunderland

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” --Cormac McCarthy (THE ROAD)

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” --Ralph Ellison (INVISIBLE MAN)

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” -- Alan W. Watts (The Wisdom of Insecurity)

“Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.” --Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)

“I look at you and a sense of wonder takes me.” --Homer (The Odyssey)

“I miss her, with a never-ending ache that I did not think was possible, that crowds out any other feeling and certainly all my reason, and any good sense.” -- Kaitlyn Greenidge (We Love You, Charlie Freeman: A Novel)

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.” -- Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” --Haruki Murakami, (Kafka on the Shore)

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.” -- Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”  --Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist) 

"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights." --Bram Stroker (Dracula)

"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering." -- Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)

"Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living." -- Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

"The curves of your lips rewrite history." -- Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together." J.D. Salinger (A Girl I Knew)

Have the courage to choose your own path not the path others expect of you.