Michael Fish

“All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver