Quoting the Books

All the little quirks that make even the most barren, frigid places beautiful, that make a tiny gray dot on the map the one place you’ll always call home, no matter where your glamorous, boring, adventurous, average, ridiculous, impossible, epic, romantic, bacon-infused life leads you.

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.

- E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul

- Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you — and you alone — to whom the others look for final guidance.

- Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky

- John Grogan, Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog

Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there

- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that

- Stephen King

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important

- Sidney Sheldon, Nothing Lasts Forever