Devon

“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You'd find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I regretted that I was old, that I could no longer appreciate the education afforded by an American highway, and that I could not grasp the mystery of a single line painted down a road going north.”
― Pat Conroy, The Water Is Wide

“But I should be false in the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass