Mandy Lynn

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

“O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!”
― Gary Snyder

“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
― Chinua Achebe

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
― Hilaire Belloc