#ding

I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#life

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#writing #life

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#reading #writing #life

Let me begin with a heartfelt confession. I admit it. I am a biblioholic, one who loves books and whose life would seem incomplete without them. I am an addict, with a compulsive need to stop by nearly any bookstore I pass in order to get my fix. Books are an essential part of my life, the place where I have spent many unforgettable moments. For me, reading is one of the most enjoyable ways to pass a rainy afternoon or a leisurely summer day. I crave the knowledge and insights that truly great books bring into my life and can spend transported hours scouring used book stores for volumes which "I simply must have". I love the smell and feel of well-loved books and the look of a bookcase full of books waiting to be taken down and read. ↗

— Terry W. Glaspey

#reading #life

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#reading #inspirational

Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself. ↗

— Katherine Sharp

#journey-of-life #long-journey #life

I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#story #witness #life

Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture. ↗

— Jessica E. Larsen

#reading-books #writing-books #writing-life #life

We profit little by books we do not enjoy. ↗

— John Lubbock

#reading #life

ll never forget that, because you were right. And I know you weren’t trying to teach me a lesson, but you did. Not everything is going to go my way and not everyone gets a happily ever after. Life is real and sometimes it’s ugly and you just have to learn how to cope. I’m going to accept it with a dose of your indifference, and move on. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#happy-ending #lesson-for-life #life #move-on #life