Tara Ryan-Gallagher

“Some books you don’t read so much as live, and finishing one of those always makes me think of ascending from a scuba dive. Like if I surface too fast I might get the bends.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“In the context of tragedy, all polite behavior is self-denial.”
― June Jordan, Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

“It's in the things we've lost that we exist most fully.”
― Fritz Leiber

“I’m always amazed at how books find us at the time we need them, as if there’s some omniscient, benevolent librarian in the sky.”
― Eve Babitz, Black Swans