Tom

“You’re in the middle of a conversation, listening to someone talk. All of a sudden your mind wanders to the report due tomorrow morning at work. That thought leads you to one about your co-worker who is supposed to have his portion of it completed for you. But will he come through?”
― Jennifer Brooks, The Meditation Transformation: How to Relax and Revitalize Your Body, Your Work, and Your Perspective Today

“But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I believed in. Then I thought maybe it would be fine as long as I was learning something new. After that I decided it just couldn't be evil. Now I was carefully delineating my personal definition of evil.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren