jeniwren

“Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
― Brad Pitt

“If you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin.”
― Magda Szubanski, Reckoning: A Memoir

“A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead”
― Caitlin Moran

“It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.”
― Penelope Lively