Tim

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive. Family and friends know, after long years of wearying experience, that the fixture list always has the last word in any arrangement; they understand, or at least accept, that christenings or weddings or any gatherings, which in other families would take unquestioned precedence, can only be plotted after consultation. So football is regarded as a given disability that has to be worked around. If I were wheelchair-bound, nobody close to me would organise anything in a top-floor flat, so why would they plan anything for a winter Saturday afternoon.”
― Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

“It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.”
― Terry Pratchett

“A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”
― William Styron