Berta

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.”
― Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

“Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?”
― Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

“Nothing is so safe as habit, even when habit is faked.”
― Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety