Morgan

“My love for the child asleep in the crib, the child's need for me, for my vigilance, had made my life valuable in a way that even the most abundantly offered love, my parents', my brother's, even Tom's, had failed to do. Love was required of me now--to be given, not merely to be sought and returned.”
― Alice McDermott, Someone

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Stories aren’t the beauty of what did happen. They’re the beauty of what could happen.”
― Brad Meltzer

“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates