Amy

“I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music and I'll bolt the door.”
― J.D. Salinger, A Boy in France

“You married him. There was something about him that caught your heart. Hang on to that and forget the rest.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”
― Sylvia Plath , The Collected Poems

“Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in the world. She was reading a book a day in alphabetical order and not skipping the dry ones. She remembered that the first author had been Abbott. She had been reading a book a day for a long time now and she was still in the B’s. Already she had read about bees and buffaloes, Bermuda vacations and Byzantine architecture. For all of her enthusiasm, she had to admit that some of the B’s had been hard going. But Francie was a reader. She read everything she could find: trash, classics, time tables and the grocer’s price list. Some”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn