Ron Christiansen

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“Stories like yours and worse than yours are all around, and your suffering won’t mark you out as special, though your response to it might.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

“What’s your story? It’s all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

“Reading is also traveling, with the eyes along the length of an idea, which can be folded up into the compressed space of a book and unfolded within your imagination and your understanding.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness