“Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.”
˜Esther Meynell (b. 1878 – d. February 4, 1955)
August
Stories
July
“Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt.
The day as it comes. People as they come…
The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”
~Audrey Hepburn (b. 4 May 1929 – d. 20 January 1993)
June
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
That doesn’t happen much, though.”
~ J.D. Salinger (b. January 1, 1919 – d. January 27, 2010)
April
“We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”
–from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (b. 22 November 1819 – d. 22 December 1880)
March
“The beginning is always today.”
~ Mary Shelley (b. 30 August 1797 – d. 1 February 1851)
January 2025
“Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come / Whispering ‘it will be happier’…” ~from “Robin Hood and Maid Marion”
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (b. 6 August 1809 – d. 6 October 1892)
Writing
“Without a function, we cease to be.
So, I will write till I die.”
~ Farley Mowat (b. May 12, 1921 – d. May 6, 2014)
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