For the Love of Reading

And even though her journal was just random sentences, she did spin stories in my head. The sound of her voice made dreams happen.

She wasn’t a person that needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.

What each theory reveals: how much hope the theorizer has left.

Secrecy begets tyranny. ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

And suddenly, she longed for a thunderstorm.

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing. ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.  ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

"That looks like it hurt."

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.  ― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.