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“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
― Serena B. Miller

“I may not be desperate. But I'm close.”
― Kristin Billerbeck

“For me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
― Sicily Yoder, An Autumn Wind in Walnut Creek

“Yet it seems to me finishing well in this life is not so much about who is the best or greatest at something, but rather who embraces lowliness of heart. Laying down one's rights- meekness- is a blessed virtue, one that must surely come straight from the Throne of Grace.”
― Beverly Lewis, The Prodigal

“Courage is fear on its knees.”
― Beverly Lewis, The Fiddler

“Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.”
― Beverly Lewis The Betrayal

“This is what reading is like to me. It's finding a spring in the midst of a barren land. Just when I think I might up and die of thirst, I stumble onto this fresh, cold water, and I'm suddenly given this new life because I can-and do-drink to my heart's content.”
― Beverly Lewis The Betrayal

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
― Bohumil Hrabal

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
― Tony Kushner, Perestroika

“Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.”
― Beverly Lewis, The Judgment

“Each person has a literature inside them.”
― Anna Deavere Smith

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
E'en in Australia art thou still more hot
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
(Since that's your winter it don't mean a lot)
Sometimes too bright the eye of heaven shines
And bushfires start through half of New South Wales
Just so, when I do see thy bosom's lines
A fire consumes me and my breathing fails

But thine eternal summer shall not fade
This is in no way due to global warming;
Nay, from thy breasts shall verses fair be made
So damn compulsive they are habit-forming
So long as men can read and eyes can see
So long lives this, thou 34DD

(Based on an idea by William Shakespeare. I'm sure he'd agree that I've improved it)”
― Manny Rayner

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.


From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

“Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero”
― Morgan Freeman

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.”
― Mario Batali

“I've seen too much of the beauty of the Lord's creation to ever doubt the Almighty.”
― Mary Connealy, Now and Forever