Jerry Drook

“I’m not saying, “Hey, isn’t my life great, isn’t yours rubbish?” Just that I try to spend my days doing as many of the things that I enjoy and hardly any time doing the things I don’t.’ ‘Such as working,’ I said. ‘Yes,’ he said. ‘Such as that.”
― Paula Daly, The Mistake I Made

“In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself...I see with a myriad of eyes,but it is still I who see.”
― C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

“Shakespeare said only our bad deeds live after us,” Victoria, the smart one, said. “The good is oft interred with their bones.”
― Paul Levine, Bum Rap

“I know life well enough to know you can’t count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places