Barbara stevens

“Dying is easy. It’s not dying that’s hard.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything,” he shouted, his thick, short arms making wide gestures of indignation, “for ’tis the only thing in this world that lasts, and don’t you be forgetting it! ’Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for — worth dying for.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“People who die with too many books on their To Be Read stack sometimes end up here. The ones who don’t feel they can pass over until they catch up on their reading. After a few decades you get to know them. Dennis, really,” the Librarian called to the nearest floating book, making me squint—”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto