#ding

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. ↗

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#searching #travel #travel

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal ↗

— John Green

#john-green #reading #the-fault-in-our-stars #people

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. ↗

— James Baldwin

#empathy #pain #reading #people

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#literacy #reading #person

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#remember

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#secret

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads. ↗

— François Mauriac

#literacy #reading #heart

Simon: You're in a dangerous line of work, Jayne. Odds are you'll be under my knife again, often. So I want you to understand one thing very clearly: No matter what you do or say or plot, no matter how you come down on us, I will never, ever harm you. You're on this table, you're safe... 'cause I'm your medic. And however little we may like or trust each other, we're on the same crew. Got the same troubles, same enemies, and more than enough of both. Now, we could circle each other and growl, sleep with one eye open, but that thought wearies me. I don't care what you've done, I don't know what you're planning on doing, but I'm trusting you. I think you should do the same. 'Cause I don't see this working any other way. River: Also, I can kill you with my brain. ↗

— Ben Edlund

#humour #team-work #truce #trust #understanding

We all need to have dreams. The question is, does the dream control you or do you control the dream? ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#dreams #robin-jones-gunn #surprise-endings #dreams

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. ↗

— Aristotle

#understanding #teaching