Cecille Tisinger

“And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“I am alone in the world, Dolores, and I am homesick for my own kind.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“Listen," he said one afternoon in the library. "You have to read a book three times before you know it. The first time you read it for the story. The plot. The movement from scene to scene that gives the book its momentum, its rhythm. It's like riding a raft down a river. You're just paying attention to the currents. Do you understand that?"

"Not at all," I said.

"Yes, you do," he said.

"Okay, I do," I said. I really didn't, but Gordy believed in me. He wouldn't let me give up.

The second time you read a book, you read it for its history, its knowledge of history.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“We can be beacons of light”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure