“To be involved with books is to live at the heart of light.”

“Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than emperors.”

“I wanted to share the risks the digger in Afghanistan took every day. Whenever I could I joined patrols ‘outside the wire’, walking the same dusty tracks and fields as the ordinary soldiers. I did everything in my power to keep them alive, I failed. In that year I lost ten soldiers under my command, killed in action. I personally identified the remains of each of them, sending them home to their families. More than sixty of my soldiers were wounded, some horribly.”

“or dead is coincidental. Copyright 2010 by Karen Fraunfelder Cantwell Chapter”

“a push up or two . . . or twenty.”

“... judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart ...”

“I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.”