Lucila Lorenzano

“The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.”
― Judith Guest, Ordinary People

“If you take a book with you on a journey,’ Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, ‘an odd thing happens: the book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“than anyone in the country.” I didn’t care how many deals Grandpa cooked up. He was still the best grandpa in the whole wide world. “What have you got?” I asked. “Come over to the store,” he said, “and I’ll show you.” On our way over, I heard him mutter, “I hope this doesn’t turn out like the ghost-coon hunt.” On”
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

“if money affects who you love, then it isn’t really love.”
― Garth Stein, A Sudden Light