Diane Joyal

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.”
― Alice Hoffman

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott