Marci

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“People who knew me and sympathized with me were determined to set me up with the other people they sympathized with and were always surprised when I would turn down their offer of what they thought of as romantic charity. “What’s the harm?” they would ask me, truly surprised. The harm, besides those hours that actually do matter when you barely have one night off every couple of weeks, is the little mark you get on you every time you open up a door to a hope and then close it fast in disappointment. It leaves a nick, or a dent, and those nicks and dents are not invisible. I used to see them all the time.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“I punched someone in the library stacks, somewhere between 972.01 and 973.6”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted

“Fred was patient with me in the years that followed our first meeting. He taught me that taking one’s time, especially in relationships, allows the other person to know he or she is worth the time.”
― Amy Hollingsworth, The Simple Faith of Mr. Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor