“Tomorrow is tomorrow. Over there is over there. And here and now is not a bad place and time to be, especially when so much of the unknown is beautiful.” ~ Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
“Would you like to have dinner with me, Nora?” He heads off my response with, “As colleagues. Ones who can’t fulfill each other’s checklists.” “I wasn’t aware you had a checklist,” I say. “Of course I have a checklist.” His eyes glint in the dark. “What am I, an animal?” ~ Emily Henry, Book Lovers
I can’t imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.” ~ Louise Erdrich, Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country