Lenny Mccullah

“The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each new trapping of domestic life - a pot, a chair, a lamp - threatened to be the thing that sent me through the ice. The only exception was books, which I acquired freely, because I never really felt they belonged to me. Because of this, I never felt compelled to finish those I didn't like, or even a pressure to like them at all. But a certain lack of responsibility also left me free to be affected. When at last I came across the right book the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.”
― Nicole Krauss, Great House

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“The emotional energy that lives in our home is going to tune our emotional body to that frequency.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship

“A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice