Katie Ruth

“According to Wilson, Washington's closeness to Posey continued longer after the war. 'In the hours of peace he found hours, weeks and months of pleasure in company with him.”
― John Thornton Posey, General Thomas Posey: Son of the American Revolution

“Books work from the inside out. They are a private conversation happening somewhere in the soul.”
― Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland

“she believed in understanding upon meeting someone for the first time that they were going to be important in her life, a sensation like recognizing a familiar face in an old photograph: in a sea of faces that mean nothing, one comes into focus. You.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

“Maybe life is just carrying news. Surviving to carry the news. Maybe we have just one message, and it is delivered to us when we are born and we are never sure what it says; it may have nothing to do with us personally but it must be carried by hand through a life, all the way, and at the end handed over, sealed.”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World