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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Joan so loved the beauty in this world: showing people the stars, spotting the fuzzy glimmer of the Orion Nebula with just her eyes, the rare moments when auroras are visible even in the southern states because of intense geomagnetic storms, trying one more time to really nail Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C-sharp Minor, rereading The Awakening, listening to Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush, drawing for so long, so late into the night that her palm cramped, running so far that she forgot to think, taking Frances for ice cream and watching how long she deliberated over which flavor to choose, the smell of Frances’s hair . . .”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“If they hate us, (…) it is because we have also bombed their cities. What we are seeing now is a world gone mad, children, a world full of brutes, all intent on killing one another. And we should not forget that we are all responsible for making it happen, for letting it happen.”
― Michael Morpurgo, An Elephant in the Garden: Inspired by a True Story

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh