Erin

“A book feels like a thing alive in the moment, and also alive on a continuum, from the moment the thoughts about it first percolated in the writer's mind to the moment it sprang off the printing press - a lifeline that continues as someone sits with it and marvels over it, and it continues on, time after time after time.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“Death would hurt only for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“I'm crying too much- I can't see where I'm going, Daddy,' Ruth told him again.
'But that's the test, Ruthie. The test is, sometimes there's no place to pull over- sometimes you can't stop, and you have to find a way to keep going. You got it?'
'Got it,' she said.
'So,' her father said, 'now you know everything.”
― John Irving, A Widow for One Year

“My feelings have never once cared about what they should be.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am