Doreen

“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
― Eleanor Hodgman Porter

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Lila

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle