Favorites Shelf Quotes

“In the centre of my library there is a wooden pillar propping up the ceiling, and preventing it, so I am told, from tumbling about our ears; and round this pillar, from floor to ceiling, I have had shleves fixed, and on these shelves are all the books that I have read again and again, and hope to read many times more — all the books, that is, that I love quite the best. In the bookcases round the walls are many that I love, but here in the centre of the room and easiest to get at, are those I love the best — the very elect among my favourites.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Solitary Summer

“Stay far from timid, only make moves when your heart's in it, and live by the phrase, "The sky's the limit.”
― Notorious BIG

“You get close to people. You get farther from them. You learn you love them. and then you say good-bye, believing that you will be together again, someday, when your lives curve back into one another's.”
― Nina LaCour, The Disenchantments

“But for the Christians, persecution was fuel to a flame.”
― Jamie Ogle, Of Love and Treason