So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me.

Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while. - Sleepless in Seattle

... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.