It Is A Miracle...

"It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season- like all the other seasons- is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life and to be grateful for them."

- Lemony Snicket

Till Early Dawn...

"Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up."

-Barbara Kingolver

Do Not Let Your Fire Go Out...

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists…it is real…it is possible…it’s yours.

                                                                                  -Ayn Rand

The Problem with Reading...

Some books you read...

"Some books you read. Some books you enjoy.

But some books just swallow you up heart and soul."

-Joanne Harris

The Dust of Everyday Life

"Books wash away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

The Best Moments

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something–a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things-which you had though special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours."

-Alan Bennet

We All Write Poems

We all write

  poems;

It is simply that

poets

are the ones who write in words.