Renee

“Life doesn’t get served to you on a plate.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages—a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore