April Alcorn

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
― Patti Smith

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
― Maya Angelou