"I feel, holding books, accommodating their weight and breathing their dust, an abiding love. I trust them, in a way that I can't trust my computer, though I couldn't do without it. Books are matter. My books matter. What would I have done through these years without the library and all its lovely books?"

-- Lori Lansens

#Book Quotes #Breathing Quotes #Dust Quotes

“The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.”
“Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.”
“If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.”
“The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.”

Source : "WWI: The Battle That Split Europe, And Families". "All things considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 30, 2011.
“I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.”
“Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.”
“And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.”
“Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.”

You may also like:

Elizabeth Berg
Writer
Esi Edugyan
Novelist
Grace Jones
Singer
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Novelist
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Journalist
Marina Endicott
Novelist
Mary Lawson
Novelist
Ryan Knighton
Screenwriter
Anita Rau Badami
Writer