Steph

“My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.

I counted.

It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

“I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

“And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables