“Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books”

“How well worn they all were..."Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said when, on Meggie's last birthday, they were looking at all her dear old books again. "As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower, both strange and familiar.”

“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”

“When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them”

“A dollar for your thoughts. Inflationlife was too short to spend time spinning your wheels somewhere you didn't want to be.”

“Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin to warp.”