Laurie

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx