Down Among the Sticks and BonesI am what I am, and there's much about me that won't be changed with any amount of wishing or wanting. I'm sorry for that.
~ Seanan McGuire
Down Among the Sticks and BonesI am what I am, and there's much about me that won't be changed with any amount of wishing or wanting. I'm sorry for that.
- Cathy in Wuthering Heights by Emily BronteIf all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
Oh Wuthering Heights. I love that book so so much. I'm about due for a re-read.Ssinghal wrote:- Cathy in Wuthering Heights by Emily BronteIf all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
- Ernest Cline, Ready Player OneNo one in the world every gets what they want and that is beautiful.
— Caroline Bingley, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
~Carlos Ruiz Zafon from the book Shadow of the WindBea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.
Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you. -Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) George R.R. Martin
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. -Albus Dumbledore
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of WritingYou must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.