Recent quotes

“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument, which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. The reader’s recognition in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its truth” –A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki

“Grandly romanticizing my life had stopped serving me, but my fatal flaw was still riding shotgun in my dinged-up Kia Soul, narrating things as they happened.” –Beach Read, Emily Henry

“I wanted to know whether you could ever fully know someone, If knowing how they were– how they moved and spoke and the faces they made and the things they tried not to look at– amounted to knowing them. Or if knowing things about them– where they’d been born, all the people they’d been, who they’d loved, the worlds they’d come from– added up to anything.” –Beach Read, Emily Henry

“Sometimes we lose the ability to create simply because we’re tired. We need to rest and recover. But other times, we can’t move forward because there are hard questions we have to ask first. Hurdles in our path we first have to jump or walls that need breaking down– interrogations demanding to be made. And when we’re brave enough to do so, we can make something beautiful. Something we know we were capable of before we began.” -Emily Henry

“‘That’s the key to marriage. You have to keep falling in love with every new version of each other, and it’s the best feeling in the world.’” –Beach Read, Emily Henry