Shannon

“Time is the water, Charlie. Life is just the bridge it flows under.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“After all, life will hand each one of us our fair share of despair and loss and suffering—and then some. That’s certain. But just as certain: It will also give us slices of chocolate cake, and sunny, seventy-two-degree days, and breezes that rustle the trees. Good things are so easy to overlook, but that doesn’t make them any less there.”
― Katherine Center, Happiness for Beginners

“She understood the need to retreat behind a book, to create a physical barrier between you and the world. She’d been doing it for years, seeking refuge in other people’s stories.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“I had finally come to understand that not getting what you want is actually the trick to it all. Because not getting what you want forces you to appreciate what you already have.”
― Katherine Center, Happiness for Beginners