September #ReadingRoundup. It was a slow month. #BookSky #TheStorygraph

Had a lot of fun with the kiln this weekend. #HandmadeJewelry #Glassart

Having to spend several weeks recovering from a medical procedure kind of sucked, but damn did it make my July #ReadingRoundup impressive. #BookSky #TheStorygraph 📚💙

“How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.” Toni Morrison Paradise #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.” Madeleine L’Engle A Wrinkle in Time #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

Bought this weeks ago and the cats have finally decided to use it. Belated #caturday

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.” Terry Pratchett Thief of Time #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky 🩵📚

“She decided long ago that life was a long journey. She would be strong, and she would be weak, and both would be okay.” Tahereh Mafi Furthermore #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people—to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it’s the effect or vice versa.” Lauren Oliver Before I Fall #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in 10 seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories." Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

"Education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know." W.E.B. Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

People always fear what they don't understand. And that fear turns them into monsters. But we can't let it turn us into monsters, too. We have to be better than them. Zari Tomaz Witch Hunt D.C.'s Legends of Tomorrow #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky

"When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before." Cliff Fadiman #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

“Folk caught up in a riot aren’t our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.” Tamora Pierce Terrier: The legend of Beka Cooper #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

“Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything would it?” L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky 🩵📚

“A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it’s the only weapon we have.” Roger Rabbit Who Framed Roger Rabbit? #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

"That's how memory works... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission." Kristin Cashore Bitterblue #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what, are we helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are going to come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterward that counts. That's when you find out who you are. Whistler, Becoming, Part 1 Buffy the Vampire Slayer #Quotes

If it's down it's down together; If it's up, it's up as one So sail on boys through stormy weather Soon the journey will be done Lift your hearts to the horizon, Leave your fears upon the shore, This one life is for the living, And we ask for nothing more Sail on, Boys Operation Mincemeat #Quotes

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” Ralph Ellison Invisible Man #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

“Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed about coming here, but then I did it.” Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes 🩵📚

“I can be miserable if I want to. You don’t need to try and make it go away. It shouldn’t go away. It’s just as sad as it ought to be and I’m not going to hide from what’s true just because it hurts.” Toni Morrison Home #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

"It is easy to judge evil unmixed", replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.'" Lloyd Alexander The Black Cauldron #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

"I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it." Roald Dahl My Uncle Oswald #Quotes

"I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't." Kristin Cashore Fire #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

In friendship we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos. Emery Lord The Start of You and Me #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

"You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons." Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky 🩵📚

Sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing through my open ears inciting and inviting me. Limitless undying love which shines around like a million suns, it calls me on and on, across the universe. Across the Universe The Beatles #QuoteOfTheDay #QuoteSky #Lyrics 🎵

“She had not known before that it takes two to make a smile.” Laura Ingalls Wilder These Happy Golden Years #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day. Jacqueline Carey Kushiel's Dart #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

June #ReadingRoundup. I love #TheStorygraph. #BookSky 💙📚

And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't So here's to drinks in the dark t the end of my rope And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope It's a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat Shake it Out Florence + the Machine #QuoteOfTheDay #QuoteSky #Lyrics 🎵

"Unless someone cares, the words are just words. It's the caring that makes the difference." A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

"There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name." Kate DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

Now I know Don't be scared Granny is right Just be prepared Isn't it nice to know a lot? And a little bit not... I Know Things Now Into the Woods #QuoteOfTheDay #BroadwayQuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #Lyrics #Broadway 🎵

"We all can dance when we find music we love." Giles Andreae Giraffes Can't Dance #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

"Friendship is one of the most satisfying things in the world." E.B. White Charlotte's Web. #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

"so i'll walk the plank and i'll jump with a smile if i'm gonna go down i'm gonna do it with style and you won't see me surrender you won't hear me confess 'cuz you've left me with nothing but i've worked with less." Dilate Ani DiFranco #QuoteOfTheDay #QuoteSky #Lyrics 🎵

"You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it." Tamora Pierce Lady Knight #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

Don't you know, silly man, Half the fun is to plan the plan! All good things come to those who can wait. Wait Sweeney Todd #QuoteOfTheDay #BroadwayQuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #Lyrics #Broadway 🎵

"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.” Terry Pratchett Monstrous Regiment #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life. Louis Sachar Small Steps #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

"And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular." Lois Lowry Number the Stars #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

I forget how much fun working in Children’s during Summer Reading is. I’ve done so much RA and got to give a kid his first library card - fantastic day 😀. #publibs #libraries

"One thing's universal Life's no dress rehearsal! So why not make some waves before it's through?" Tonight Belongs to You The Prom #QuoteOfTheDay #BroadwayQuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #Lyrics #Broadway

“I like being present in spaces where I am not welcome because you do not deserve to feel comfortable just because you’re racist or sexist or small-minded.” Scaachi Koul One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #BookQuotes 🩵📚

“‘This earthly life is a battle,’ said Ma. ‘If it isn’t one thing to contend with, it’s another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures’.” Laura Ingalls Wilder Little Town on the Prairie

Wishes may bring problems Such that you regret them Better that though than to never get them Ever After Into the Woods #QuoteOfTheDay #BroadwayQuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky #Lyrics #Broadway

The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer. James Risen Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War #QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #QuoteSky 🩵📚

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Ferris Bueller Ferris Bueller's Day Off #QuoteOfTheDay #QuoteSky #MovieQuotes