“Books are reason to get up in the morning.”
― Nina Sankovitch

“It is a gift we humans have, to hold on to beauty felt in a moment for a lifetime.”
― Nina Sankovitch, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

“..hard to trust that after so much had been taken, so much could still be received.”
― Tatjana Soli

“Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“The life of a snail is as full of tasty food, comfortable beds of sorts, and a mix of pleasant and not-so-pleasant adventures as that of anyone I know”
― Elisabeth Tova Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

“Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down.  The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to a deeper blue, to pale violet, to purple, then thins to grey.  Slowly the wind falls, and the still air begins to freeze.  The solid eastern ridge is black; it has a bloom on it like the dust on the skin of a grape.  The west flares briefly.  The long, cold amber of the afterglow casts clear black lunar shadows.  There is an animal mystery in the light that sets upon the fields like a frozen muscle that will flex and wake at sunrise.”
― J.A. Baker, The Peregrine