Vicky Vaughn

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“You cannot live with a paw in each world.”
― Erin Hunter, Into the Wild

“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death