Silly Goose

“Countless writers express countless ideas on so many bits of paper, and at some unknown moment some specific book, even some specific sentence, will be the right one for the right person. We never know when some scrap of literature will have its finest hour.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“Some book of mine - this book of philosophy, for example - may sit ignored and lonely on a high shelf, but then someday a reader will walk into a library and spot the spine of the book they have been waiting for, and they will pluck my book off the shelf and use it to stand on, to reach the book they are excited to read.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“It is difficult for me to exaggerate how much I love a library.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“All good writing is like this. It is why a favorite book feels like an old friend and a new acquaintance at the same time, and the reason a favorite author can be a familiar figure and a mysterious stranger all at once.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast