Frances

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

“O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
― Leo Rosten