Laurie

“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
― Jane Austen

“Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.”
― J.M. Coetzee

“She has had no role in my life except to keep me sane, fed, housed, amused, and protected from unwanted telephone calls, also to restrain me fairly frequently from making a horse's ass of myself in public, to force me to attend to books and ideas from which she knows I will learn something; also to mend my wounds when I am misused by the world, to implant ideas in my head and stir the soil around them, to keep me from falling into a comfortable torpor, to agitate my sleeping hours with problems that I would not otherwise attend to; also to remind me constantly (not by precept but by example) how fortunate I have been to live for fifty-three years with a woman that bright, alert, charming, and supportive.”
― Wallace Stegner