Maren

“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.”
― Garrison Keillor

“All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We