Mo' Joy

“Books are the weapon against Anton’s lament that “everything is forgotten in the end.” Books allow experiences to be relived, and allow lessons to be learned.”
― Nina Sankovitch, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

“Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.”
― Suzanne Collins, Gregor the Overlander

“It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

“the powers that be have a way of outlawing many beautiful things made by ordinary people. I don’t know why that should be, I only know it is.”
― Stephen King, Joyland