Julie

“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin

“What I learned...is the difficulty of divining the truth of another human's story. Understanding the whole of a person's life - not just what they did, but why they did it - is like constantly unfolding a puzzle, a Jacob's ladder that spills out in a new direction every time you grasp a different corner."\”
― Corinne Purtill, Ghosts in the Forest

“There is not a lost piece of yourself that can't be found in a good novel.”
― Kimberly Jo Smith

“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
― Margaret Wise Brown