“We live and breathe words. …. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt–I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted–and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”

― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

Old wooden window with peeling paint showing garden plants through glass panes.

This evening, I sat by an open window
and read till the light was gone and the book
was no more than a part of the darkness.
I could easily have switched on a lamp,
but I wanted to ride the day down into night,
to sit alone, and smooth the unreadable page
with the pale gray ghost of my hand”

― Ted Kooser, Delights and Shadows

Quote about books

Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You’d find life under the glass, streaming past in infinite profusion. The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more ‘literary’ you are. That’s my definition anyway. Telling detail. Fresh detail. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. So now you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. By Ray Bradbury. Farenheit 451

Dolphins

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Bottlenose dolphin jumping above ocean surface with splash — A bottlenose dolphin leaps energetically out of the ocean water.

Inspiration

“People go through injuries. It’s almost something you have to figure out and learn on your own, what makes you. I’ve learned through injuries it could make you or break you. You’ve kind of got to go through it on your own to see what you’re made of. Because you’re going to come out a different player and there’s nothing I can tell you to prepare you for that because there’s going to be good days and bad days. That’s just the nature of the injury. That’s something you’ve got to get through on your own.”

What Paul George said to Jayson Tatum