Kami

“My cove, my home may be empty, but in my mind, there are many people whose spirits remain. They represent the richest inheritance and finest examples of the cove's existence as an organized community since 1818.”
― Catherine Astl, Oliver's Crossing: A Novel of Cades Cove

“If you come and see me again in years to come—as I hope you all will—I shall try to remember those older faces of yours, but it’s just possible I shan’t be able to—and then some day you’ll see me somewhere and I shan’t recognize you and you’ll say to yourself, ‘The old boy doesn’t remember me.’ [Laughter] But I do remember you—as you are now. That’s the point. In my mind you never grow up at all.”
― James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

“Winter is a time for libraries, the muffled quiet of bookstacks and the scent of old pages and dust. In winter, I can spend hours in silent pursuit of a half-understood concept or a detail of history. There is nowhere else to be, after all.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“I call myself The Misfit," he said, "because I can't make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment.
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find