"OK.  OK.  Are you defensive?  Yes.  But everyone is defensive.  And I think it's a bit different for you because you do a lot of work explaining your own behavior and thoughts to yourself so it's extra hard to hear an outsider's point of view and/or someone who spends no time considering her own action (aka someone like me)."
- I Hate Everyone But You by Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin

"There may be stranger reasons for being alive.

There are books.  There's Auntie Teg, and Grampar.  There's Sam, and Gill.  There's interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.  There's the distant hope of a karass sometime in the future.  There's Glorfindel who really care about me as much as a fairy can care about anything."
-Among Others by Jo Walton