“He was still wet with sweat and the coffee did little to cool things, but he needed it because it was an old friend and starting the day without it was unthinkable.”
― A Time for Mercy
― A Time for Mercy
“We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."
"This," Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.”
― The Raven Boys
"This," Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.”
― The Raven Boys
“A series of books, dilapidated and faded, sit bundled together. Most of the bindings are separating from the yellowed pages, but each is at home in its battered state. Their wrinkled pages and discolored skin tell not of old age, but of a good life. These books, unlike so many others, were not just read, but revisited, loved, and experienced.”
― If I Resist
― If I Resist
“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“I have always found that making allowances for a liberal amount of fiction in one’s life is necessary to maintaining equanimity. How else does one escape, even for a short time, from the drudgery that everyday life affords?”
― Longbourn: Dragon Entail
― Longbourn: Dragon Entail
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