Amanda

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient