Words to Story

"When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape."

~ Louise Erdrich

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Saturday, 7 June 2014

How Much He'd Learned

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

~ Mark Twain

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Sunday, 15 June 2014