...I still read fairy-tales...

"If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all." -Audrey Hepburn

...a part of you now...

"Know that all those stories and poems and plays and novels are a part of you now and that they are bigger than you and they will always be." -Sugar; Dear Sugar, the Rumpus Advice Column

...Carry it with me...

"I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English and/or creative writing degree you'll say: _Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire;_ or maybe just: _Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters._ And then smile very serenely until they say _oh._" -Sugar; Dear Sugar, the Rumpus Advice Column

Life isn't divided into genres...

"Life isn't divided into genres. It's horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky." -Alan Moore

First, I would have her be...

"First, I would have her be beautiful, and walking carefully up on my poetry at the loneliest moment of an afternoon, her hair still damp at the neck from washing it. She should be wearing a raincoat, an old one, dirty from not having money enough for the cleaners. She will take out her glasses, and there in the bookstore, she will thumb over my poems, then put the book back up on its shelf. She will say to herself, 'For that kind of money, I can get my raincoat cleaned.' And she will." -Ted Kooser

Once upon a time...

"Once upon a time there was a book and in the book was a nest and in the nest was an egg and in the egg was a dragon and in the dragon was a story..." -Anonymous

When you sell a man a book...

"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue--you sell him a whole new life." -Christopher Morley