Food for Thought

"In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars."
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am."
—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly."

—Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

"Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."

—John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"How wild it was, to let it be."
—Cheryl Strayed, Wild

 "It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes."
—Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
—Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

"One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

—Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices