Amanda R

“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
― John Green

“There’s this world,’ she banged the wall graphically, ‘and there’s this world,’ she thumped her chest. ‘If you want to make sense of either, you have to take notice of both.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.”
― Clifton Fadiman, The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classic Guide to World Literature

“It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit