“what is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
"i fell in love with books. some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but i find it in words. by beauty, i mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding."