Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
Anna QuindlenAnd a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.
Anna QuindlenWe read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
Anna QuindlenWhile we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.
Anna Quindlen