Pegge > Pegge's Quotes

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
― Kay Bratt, Wish Me Home

“Like, you’re a librarian, and a teacher, and a friend, and a bad dresser, but most of all you’re a mom, right?”
― Kelly Harms, The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

“I escaped a life sentence with a partner who literally slept through the hardest moments in our lives, leaving me alone to deal with them.”
― Kelly Harms, The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

“Invisibility was my favorite state of existence.”
― Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl

“smiling at the stars glittering on their dark blanket.”
― Joe Hart, Or Else

“How closely entwined my sense of self was with my sense of professional accomplishment.”
― Kristin Rockaway, Life, Unscheduled

“the giraffes were already working their giraffe magic on me”
― Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes