Neda Congrove

“Use the word 'ya'll' and before you knew it, you'd find yourself in a haystack french-kissing an underage goat”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“These thieves and lovers and wandering poets—what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness.”
― Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

“Middle Ages”
― Mary Norton, Bed-Knob and Broomstick

“That you are a worldly adult,’ she said. ‘You have spent your whole life letting go of the innocent dreams that made your childhood so warm and hopeful and full of certainty. Dream by dream you let them go. We all do it, to shield ourselves from disappointment. It’s easy to shed them. Not so easy to get them back.”
― John Berendt, An Innocent Abroad: Life-changing Trips from 35 Great Writers