Lorrie

“For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of--to think; well, not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others. Although she continued to knit, and sat upright, it was thus that she felt herself; and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures. When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless.”
― Virginia Woolf

“The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“Books are good enough in their own way but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
― Edith Wharton