From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other.
But when books are opened you discover you have wings.
~ Helen Hayes
All we actually have is our body and its muscles
that allow us to be under our own power,
to glide in the water, to roll down a hill,
and to jump into someone's arms.
— Allegra Kent, from Once a Dancer
My son is forty-two... it can't possibly be true!
I feel older only whenever he has another birthday
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
— Caroline Gordon
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My home is where my books are. — Ellen Thompson
If you can tell a story,
then you get a moment of glory, you get love.
— George Minot
"the joy of just being with words"
