Kelly

“Books were hungry things, and if you stayed too long in any one place, they would consume everything and everyone around you.”
― Michael Chabon, Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces

“Social media not only snatches your time, but it also teaches you attention deficiency.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“When you spend too much time battling your own
nature, the opposite happens: you deplete yourself. I’ve met too
many people living lives that didn’t suit them — introverts with
frenetic social schedules and extroverts with jobs that required
them to sit in front of their computers for hours at a stretch.
We all have to do things that don’t come naturally... some of the time. But it shouldn’t be all the time. It shouldn’t even be most of the time.”
― Susan Cain, The Power of Introverts: 9 Best-Loved Stories

“People read for a multiplicity of reasons. Nearly forty years in, I can tell you why I inhale books like oxygen: I'm grateful for my one life, but I'd prefer to live a thousand --and my favorite books allow me to experience more on the page than I ever could in my actual life.”
― Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life