Melissa

“You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?”
― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“-the men were found to have left behind their guns but to have lugged such essentials as monogrammed silver cutlery, a backgammon board, a cigar case, a clothes brush, a tin of buttons polish, and a copy of 'The Vicar of Wakefield.' These men may have been incompetent bunglers, but, by God, they were gentlemen.”
― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“-believed in carnal love. To us, a book's words were holy, but the paper, cloth, cardboard, glue, thread, and ink that contained them were a mere vessel, and it was no sacrilege to treat them as wantonly as desire and pragmatism dictated. Hard use was a sign not of disrespect but of intimacy.”
― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“-and our lips meet with feels-- like not slow motion-- but every moment in my life and the lack of time altogether.”
― Sarah Tregay, Fan Art