Michelle

“Reading felt like a daytime dream in a secret land. Nobody but I knew how to get there, and nobody but I owned that place”
― Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name

“Er zijn vele wegen die hij in het leven kan nemen en ik wil zijn atlas zijn.”
― Dimitri Verhulst, De helaasheid der dingen

“Life is an endless recruiting of witnesses. It seems we need to be observed in our postures of extravagance or shame, we need attention paid to us. Our own memory is altogether too cherishing, which is the kindest thing I can say for it. Other are required, other perspectives, but even so our most important ceremonies – birth, love, and death – are secured by whomever and whatever is available. What chance, what caprice!”
― Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye