Mae

“To visit planet earth you will have to be born as a human child.

At first you will have to learn to use your new body , to move your arms and legs, and to pull yourself upright.

You will learn to run, to use your hands, to make sounds and form words.

Slowly you will learn to take care of yourself.

There will be so much for you to learn and so much for you to feel - pleasure and fear , joy and disappointment , sadness and wonder.

You will grow up, travel , and work. Perhaps you will have children , even grandchildren , of your own.

Over the years you will try to make sense of that happy , sad ,full ,empty , always-shifting life you are in.

And when the time comes to return to your star, it may be hard to say goodbye to that strangely beautiful world.”
― Claire A. Nivola (Author)

“Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read
- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

“I didn’t know then that some people die long before their real death. Nor did I imagine that the last time you saw them might also be the last time they were truly alive.”
― Magda Szabó, Katalin Street