Lydia Ralte

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“When he said that the Kingdom of God is spread out upon the earth, he was telling them that justice, goodness, peace, and all those things denied them by the elites of the world were not anyone’s exclusive possession but the inheritance of all people.”
― George Tyger, War Zone Faith: An Army Chaplain's Reflections from Afghanistan

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