Dena

“Stop. You’re going to make an excuse for not being normal and I have no interest in hearing that. Honestly, people always talk about ‘normal’ as though it is something to aspire to, but that’s a load of crap. Normal isn’t an achievement, it’s a baseline. Normal is something you end up as if you never get around to doing something interesting. You”
― Patty Jansen, Galactic Empires: Seven Novels of Deep Space Adventure

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“There is a value to books—unhackable, paper books—that measures far beyond mere ink and paper.”
― Richard Due