MJ

“Turning the pages. Turning the pages. When we turn the page we are born again. Living and dying and living and dying and living and dying. Again, and again. And really that’s the way it ought to be. The way that reading ought to be done. Yes. Yes. Turning the pages. Turning the pages. With one’s entire life.”
― Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

“And he answered that the beauty of the cosmos derives not only from unity in variety, but also from variety in unity.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“He’d been the only Wolcott besides Elsa who loved reading, and he’d frequently taken her side in family disagreements. Don’t worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“And what would she have to show for her life? How would her time on this earth be marked? Who would remember her, and for what?”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds