Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.
From Simon Van Booy
In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.
When I'm doing something, I do work hard at it.
Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.
If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.
I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.
When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.
Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.
I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.
Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do.
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