Octopus

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians