Alicia

“For the longest time I was so sick I didn't have the strength or inclination to read, but looking at my books stacked up on the bedside table was comforting, like having old friends sitting in the room with me, friends who didn't require anything of me, friends who brought me great pleasure just with their presence, waiting until I could engage with them again.... bibliophiles know the inanimate pleasure of the friendship with books.”
― Lindsey O'Connor

“Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.”
― Jimmy Buffett

“Books fall open, you fall in.”
― David T.W. McCord

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
― Edward Everett Hale