Sarah

“Never have so many people had so much access to so much knowledge and yet have been so resistant to learning anything.”
― Thomas M. Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

“Taking books away from a culture is to take away its shared memory. It’s like taking away the ability to remember your dreams. Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I’d once heard that we are nothing but our stories. Forget the blood and bones and genes and cells. They’re not what we are. We are, rather, our stories. We are an accumulation of experiences that we have fashioned into our own grand, sweeping narrative.”
― Ken Ilgunas, Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom