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“It matters not how long we live but how.”
― Philip James Bailey, The Mystic and Other Poems

“A soul is a quilt stitched of many patches.”
― Lesley Kagen

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the minutes passed, he knew what it was to pray. It was to will goodness out of evil, hope out of despair, life out of death. It was to will dreams into existence and spectres into reality. It was to will an end to anguish and a beginning to joy.”
― Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

“Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might make a mistake. But, darling, there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes, our actions, and the consequences that follow both. There are only events, how we cope with them, and what we learn from the coping."

"That's too easy," he said.

"On the contrary. It's monumentally difficult.”
― Elizabeth George, With No One as Witness

“Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.”
― Ali Smith

“I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter, better, and freer, because I'm not bound by rules, law, emotion or regard for you.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”
― Paul Klee

“At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful.”
― William Kent Krueger, Heaven's Keep

“She loved most being in the woods with the diffused light and the quiet there. Such a stillness, with just the pecking of ground birds and forest animals, the flutter of wings, the occasional skittering of squirrels playing up and down a tree. The silent, imperceptible unfurling of spring buds into blossom. She felt comfortable there. As if nothing could be unnatural in that place, within but apart from the world.”
― Brad Watson, Miss Jane

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Love and loathing can hold no surprises for most people in middle age. What we haven't gorged on, we've sampled.”
― Robert Hillman, Joyful

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder