Sophie Halperin

“Silence is kind of awkward, don’t you think?” he said.

Oh. Or not. “No. I’m okay with silence. We’re in a library after all. This is the birthplace of silence.”

“The library is the birthplace of silence?” David asked.

“All the words are being used by the books. When I was little, that’s what I used to think. That people were told to be quiet so that all their words didn’t get stolen by the books. I thought books needed words to exist. Well, obviously they do, but I thought they needed spoken words. Yeah … I was always weird.”

“And here I thought libraries were quiet because people were trying to study,” David whispered.

“That might be another explanation.”
― Kasie West, P.S. I Like You

“I feel like if I hold things close, never share, then I never give anyone the opportunity to judge me.”
― Kasie West, P.S. I Like You

“Walking in heels while wearing a ball gown was, as it turned out, more difficult than finagling an invitation to a state dinner.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Fixer

“Reading is a gift never make it a punishment.”
― Haley pham