Janae

“A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading.”
― Karen Karbo, How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons On The Art Of Living

“I've always said that you know you're a poet when you type an em dash and you hit the delete button, and you type a colon and you hit the delete button, and you type an em dash and you hit the delete button, and you type a colon and you hit the delete button. If you can do that for about three hours straight, trying to figure out which one is the best one, if you can do that for three hours and call that a good time, then you're probably a poet.”
― Jericho Brown

“Twitter," said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

“The truth is that you do forget people. When you conjure them up, long after they have gone, you can’t recall the essence of them, just the outline.”
― Helen Humphreys, The Evening Chorus