Samuel Hall

“Sometimes, when people think they're putting obstacles in your path, they're actually laying your stepping-stones. You just gotta recognize them as one and the same.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself. [...] It had been only through books - at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions - that I had managed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books; consequently, my belief in books had risen more out of a sense of desperation than from any abiding conviction of their ultimate value.”
― Richard Wright