Dan

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“When you find something that's whole, you do what you can to keep it that way.

And when you fins something that isn't, then maybe it's not a bad idea to try to make it whole again. Maybe.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now

“Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief