{goodreads}
"Be what you are, of the earth, but a dreamer too."
-Mary Oliver
"So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?"
-Kathleen Kelly, You've Got Mail
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."
-from The Little Minister by J. M. Barrie
"One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favourite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown."
-from Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'"
-C. S. Lewis
"When words are put together right they're just like singing." {Josephine} told Effie. And she was right. It is like bathing in rippling water to work in the midst of singing words.
-from The Cutters by Bess Streeter Aldrich
