“If you want to be seen, stand up.If you want to be heard, speak up.If you want to be appreciated, shut up.”
“I heard once that the things you own define you and I didn't want to be seen that way.”
“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.”
“You want me to be all doom and gloom, or just shut up?”
“A good book is a good friend. He will talk to you if you want him to talk, but will shut up if you don't want him to talk. - A library is a collection of good friends.”
“If you want to write, you've got to shut yourself up in a room and write.”