Michelle

“Because it’s worth it. Worth the risk and the pain. Of all the glorious enchantments of this world—spring, snow, laughter, red roses, dogs, books—love is by far the best.” She released Harry and got down off the low stone wall. She took in the sugar maple, the wall, the forest. Hugged herself and smiled sorrowfully. “By its very nature, though, love is tragic. You can’t protect it. No matter how tightly you hold on to the one you love, they leave you or you leave them.”
― Jon Cohen, Harry's Trees

“Olive was all the best things: she was incredibly wrinkly and smelled like pipe tobacco and she had a sudden laugh that scared the spit out of you and she hated the computer, but she’d use it to search the ends of Susquehanna County for an interlibrary-loan copy of the book you wanted if Pratt Library didn’t have it on its shelves. Also, she used curse words.”
― Jon Cohen, Harry's Trees

“Get a book. Reading solves most things. Or at least assuages the heart.”
― Jon Cohen, Harry's Trees

“You go to the trail for the mountaintops. You go to get away from people. But it’s funny. The people end up being what you remember the most.”
― Amity Gaige, Heartwood