Vickie Mathis

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
― Victor Hugo

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
― Joan Didion