Katie

“If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.”
― Romain Rolland

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People