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“I know that memories alter the more you revisit them, and I want mine to re main pristine. I want to hold that memory still, as if it were stuck in a snow globe, protected and unchanged even as the world swirls around it.”
― Geraldine DeRuiter, If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

“Dreams are elusive, and always pulling at you. They seem always to be right around the corner. But you never really know what you're chasing, until you catch it. If it turns out to be real magic, the chase will have been worth it.”
― Bob Weis, Dream Chasing: My Four Decades of Success and Failure with Walt Disney Imagineering

“I don't believe books are the cure to everything, necessarily, but it's like--when you're feeling unwell, and you receive a diagnosis, and you're so relieved because now you realize that it wasn't all in your head, that there's a name for what you're experiencing. On a bad day, books offer a language for your pain, and on a good day, books remind you just how precious your life is.”
― Ann Liang, Never Thought I'd End Up Here

“The pleasure of reading is the pleasure of loneliness. Loneliness is at the heart of literature -- every book, every single book you can read.”
― Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?