Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.
'The Ocean at the End of the Lane' by Neil Gaiman
I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved. They were college professors and actors and scientists and poets. They got to college and sat on dorm floors drinking coffee, amazed they'd finally found their soul mates. They always dressed a little out of season. Their names were enshrined on the pink cards in the pockets of all the forgotten hardbacks in every library basement in America. If the librarians were lazy enough or nostalgic enough or smart enough, those names would stay there forever.
The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
Hard times ahead - but books community is exactly that, and we help each other ❤️
What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.
'American Gods' by Neil Gaiman
God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
'The poisonwood bible' by Barbara Kingsolver
"Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth."
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