Quote of the Day

"Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring."
- Truman Capote

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"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed."
- William Shakespeare

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"Breakage is a violence & a doing yr soft body cannot take. Why ruin the shell that protects you, that is yr home? , Rather, find in the forest a tender moss patch, one where there is water & a good feeding, where safe others sometimes go. Slip from yr shell (but keep it close)–nibble on a green thing. Look in the eye of a friendly creature. Retreat into yr shell. ; Do this every several days. It is the reaching for what is tasty that will coax you out; there must be no shattering ."
- Taisia Kitaiskaia, "Ask Baba Yaga: How Do I Break Out of My Hermit Shell?" (via)

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"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
- Aldous Huxley

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"Saying 'yes' doesn’t mean I don’t know how to say no, and saying 'please' doesn’t mean I am waiting for permission. 'Yes please' sounds powerful and concise. It’s a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl; it is about being a real woman. It’s also a title I can tell my kids. I like when they say 'Yes please' because most people are rude, and nice manners are the secret keys to the universe."
- Amy Poehler, Yes Please

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"October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!"
- Rainbow Rowell

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"If librarians were honest, they would say, No one spends time here without being changed..."
- Joseph Mills, "If Librarians Were Honest" (via)

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"It is solved by walking."
- St. Augustine

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"The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises toward ever wider horizons!"
- Pope John Paul II

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"Being the mother of two tiny kids frazzles you because the utterly banal is, somehow, profoundly important...It's as if world peace depended on how well you dust your living room."
- Cokie Roberts, What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self

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"I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down."
-  Laurie Halse Anderson

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"I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice."
- Mr. Fox, Fantastic Mr. Fox

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"I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself."
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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"1 was Johnny who lived by himself...AND LIKED IT LIKE THAT."
- Maurice Sendak, One Was Johnny

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"Only a fool would welcome a soiled table of crumbs & empty bottles. Let them, those who would feast, bring jugs & baskets, bring fruits & goodly onions. Yr table is not for the vagrants or the doomed....Yr table is for the sweet dark wine & the tender herbs & a good eye winking at you above a full glass. Wait for the , guest who carries fresh meats, & until then, eat yr fine soups by yrself, & open the windows so the birds may come in yr house & charm yr table with their beauty."
- Taisia Kitaiskaia, "Ask Baba Yaga: Will I Ever Fall in Love Again?" (via)

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"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared."
- Lois Lowry, The Giver

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"Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd have all frozen to death."
- Mark Twain

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"My library is an archive of longings."
- Susan Sontag

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"Screw you for thinking I'm 'random.' As if being myself is a calculated act...I'm happy with who I am, and with how my brain works, and if that makes you uncomfortable it's your problem, not mine."
- Emily, Questionable Content #2999 (via)