Chris Black

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.”
― Eudora Welty