Josie

“There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.”
― Cate Tiernan

“Jackson once said that “the first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents. . . . Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.”
― Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

“They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain and nourish all the world.”
― William Shakespeare

“It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories