Carmen Stone

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”
― Homer, Iliad

“my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.”
― anchee min

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster