Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many people feel better at the mere sight of a book. Jane Smiley

A book is an object. While the reader is reading it it become a story. Jane Smiley

Resentment--in its various manifestations--is perhaps the central problem of psychological development and psychotherapy. (Lyn Cowan)

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ― Anaïs Nin

novelist is someone who takes you on a journey. Through space. Through time. A novelist leads the reader over a gap, makes something go where it was not. Susan Sontag

“With wisdom comes an increase in sorrow.”

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

No one is more cherished in the world than someone who lightens the load of another.

“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Write hard and clear about what hurts. Ernest Heminway

“My words are my tears,” Samuel Beckett