Teralee

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Don’t leave me,” he whispers.
“Oh, for crying out loud—no! I am not going to go!” I shout and it’s cathartic. There, I’ve said it. I am not leaving.
“Really?” His eyes widen.
“What can I do to make you understand I will not run? What can I say?”
He gazes at me, revealing his fear and anguish again. He swallows. “There is one thing you can do.”
“What?” I snap.
“Marry me,” he whispers.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker

“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.”
― James Bryce

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain