Gaby

“Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, May Day

“this is a book about something”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot. ”
― Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood