Karen > Karen's Quotes

“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.”
― Jonathan Larson, Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
― Mary Wortley Montagu

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
― Joseph Addison

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's own books - it does not matter whose or where. Simply to be among books, glancing at one here, reading a page from one over there, enjoying them all as objects to be touched, looked at, even smelt, is a deep satisfaction. And often, very often, while browsing haphazardly, looking for nothing in particular, you pick up a volume that suddenly excites you, and you know that this one of all the others you must read. Those are great moments - and the books we come across like that are often the most memorable.”
― Aidan Chambers