Kelly

“And when I'm lonely, with everyone around
I go to my happy place where I'm alone”
― Talia Basma, Being

“Her eyes widened as she took in what must be thousands of titles. She stepped farther into the room finding the bookcases rose up at least two stories. Like a bee to honey, she was drawn to the remarkable library. There was a ladder that glided along a set of rails to reach the top shelves. And a spiral staircase for the second floor of shelves with yet another ladder. t was truly remarkable.
She didn't know whether she had walked onto the set of My Fair Lady or the library of Beauty and the Beast. She'd never seen anything so magnificent.”
― Jennifer Faye, Beauty and Her Boss

“Books were hungry things, and if you stayed too long in any one place, they would consume everything and everyone around you.”
― Michael Chabon, Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces

“When you spend too much time battling your own
nature, the opposite happens: you deplete yourself. I’ve met too
many people living lives that didn’t suit them — introverts with
frenetic social schedules and extroverts with jobs that required
them to sit in front of their computers for hours at a stretch.
We all have to do things that don’t come naturally... some of the time. But it shouldn’t be all the time. It shouldn’t even be most of the time.”
― Susan Cain, The Power of Introverts: 9 Best-Loved Stories