Toril Øverli

“Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

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

“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