Barbara Backus

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie