I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

the mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart has one:yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

This toast feels raw. Is it safe to eat raw toast?

You'd think that sweet would be a land far, far away from irritating, but as it turns out they're right next door, and always having border disputes.

Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!” said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she dashed by.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.