Lyndi (mibookobsession)

“Life is random events. Books have to have some kind of arc and if only life followed that pattern it would be so much easier, wouldn’t it? If we all knew we had a purpose, or an end goal. A final chapter.”
― Jane Lovering, Happily Ever After

“The best way to avoid other people's emotions was to avoid the people who had them. And since everyone had emotions, Polly avoided most people. The solitude suited her, even if it concerned the adults around her.
Forest emotions were much more manageable. They rolled in like a slow-moving tide. If she sat long enough with a tree, the tiny tremors of almost-awareness became part of her without announcing themselves.”
― Julie Carrick Dalton

“And I just remember feeling…light. No one was looking at me.” He seems a little bashful as he says, “I’ve always felt most myself when I’m alone.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“There is nothing like the smell of books to awaken the soul. It's the earthy, sometimes sweet scent of the calf's leather, the fatty glue on paper and ink. Anyone who loves books knows that smell. Breathes it. That particular perfume that invades and stays. The aroma of imagination, of knowledge waiting.”
― A.D. Bell