James

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.”
― Harriet Prescott Spofford, The Amber Gods and Other Stories