JB

“It was like telling someone who's afraid of the dark to go stand in the sunshine; eventually, the sun always goes down.”
― A.X. Rhodes, Saying Goodbye: a short story

“In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway