Katy > Katy's Quotes

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
― Willa Cather

“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
― E.B. White

“Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“I emerge into a library-study with the highest book-population density I have seen in my life. Book walls, book towers, book avenues, book side-streets. Book spillages, book rubble. Paperback books, hardcover books, atlases, manuals, almanacs. Nine lifetimes of books. Enough books to build an igloo to hide in, and then to hide the igloo. The room is sentient with books. Mirrors double and cube the books. A Great Wall of China quantity of books. Enough books to make me wonder if I am a book too. Light”
― David Mitchell, number9dream