“I give you virtually everything I have. I give you all the best things I have, and while these things are things that I like, memories that I treasure, good or bad, like the pictures of my family on my walls, I can show them to you without diminishing them. I can afford to give you everything.”
—Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (via bookmania)
April 2012
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“You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love (via bookmania)
“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my lifeā¦And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
—Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (via bookmania)