Sirah

“Those who write for children are trying to arm them for the life ahead with everything we can find that is true. And perhaps, also, secretly, to arm adults against those necessary compromises and necessary heartbreaks that life involves: to remind them that there are and always will be great, sustaining truths to which we can return.”
― Katherine Rundell, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

“One day you goin' wake up and find your anger has been replaced wit' loneliness, and i's mo' easy fo' stop being mad dan it is fo' stop being lonely.”
― Akemi Dawn Bowman, Summer Bird Blue

“I always imagined that cats were the Paris Hiltons of the pet world: They didn't quite deserve all the attention but they got it anyway.”
― Sarah Andersen, Big Mushy Happy Lump

“I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.”
― Bill Murray