Meredith

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
― Anita Desai

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
― Ezra Pound

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black