Like she was walking a tightrope between light and dark, joy and sorrow, and all I could do was stand beneath with arms outstretched and hope to make a catch.
“Like she was walking a tightrope between light and dark, joy and sorrow, and all I could do was stand beneath with arms outstretched and hope to make a catch.”
― The Roanoke Girls
― The Roanoke Girls
“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Room
― Room
“Because that’s what books are made for. They’re made to connect you to people, real or fictional, even when you feel like you’re completely alone.”
― Penelope in Retrograde
― Penelope in Retrograde
“Fear is like a cancer—it starts with an actual moment but then multiplies and gains hold of you until it’s bending your experience of everything around you.”
― The Orphanage by the Lake
― The Orphanage by the Lake
“Imagine someone just came up with the idea of reading. Like, ‘Hey, let’s launch a product with no pictures, just words and letters. To enjoy it, you have to sit in one place and stare at it for hours, and then the whole story will slowly unfold just to you inside your brain. It might take you months to find out what happens in the end. It’s a completely solitary endeavor and you can’t do anything else at the same time.”
― Blank
― Blank
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