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“Conventionality is not morality.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

“That wind! ...it called to mind the small, scarce, stemmy flowers that she and Edmund would walk half a day to pick, though in another day they would all be wilted. Sometimes Edmund would carry buckets and a trowel, and lift them earth and all, and bring them home to plant, and they would die. They were rare things, and grew out of ants' nests and bear dung and the flesh of perished animals.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

“It doesn't matter what people want to hear. It doesn't matter if people like you. It doesn't matter if the whole world thinks you're crazy. It doesn't matter whose heart you break. What matters is the truth.”
― Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

“Never be afraid to learn from the ether...That's where knowledge lives before someone hunts it, kills it, and mounts it in a book.”
― Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“He's got that New Orleans thing crawling all over him, that good stuff, that We Are the Champions, to hell with the rest and I'll just start over kind of attitude.”
― Chris Rose, 1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
― Gabriel García Márquez