“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”
— Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Haruki Murakami)
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.
- Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”
— Naguib Mahfouz
[image desc: pixel art of (1) unblossomed pink buds on a branch, with brown text below reading “spring is here”; (2) open the same blossoms now open, with brown text below reading “and we begin again”]
