Toril Øverli

“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
― David Richo

“It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
― Patti Smith

“The feelings we live through
in love and in loneliness
are simply, for us,
what high tide
and low tide are to the sea.”
― Khalil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran