quotes-by-carew-papritz

Read what you like, not what you're told to like. That way you'll read for a lifetime.

Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity__ivilization__ backbone__hat tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized . . .

Read what you like, not what you__e told to like. That way you__l read for a lifetime.

Remember, it__ still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you__ have nothing to look forward to. Besides, to be wise and eighteen is as possible as catching lightning in a bottle_

You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.

I want to remember warming your two a.m. bottle, clipping your locks, watching you be baptized, bathing you in the big porcelain sink_ how I often laid you against my chest and felt the cradlesong of your tiny breaths as you fell asleep . . .