“I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, goodreads.com
“Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.”— E. B. White, amazon.com
“We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”— Andy Warhol, goodreads.com
“I wanted to tell you everything. And that hurt because some things were too scary. Some things even I didn’t understand.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.”— Chaim Potok, amazon.com
“We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn’t big enough for all that wanting. I don’t know. I don’t know anything.”— John Updike, amazon.com
“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“Things have their ways. They speak to us. They nudge us. Things live amongst us. Or, more properly put, we live amongst them. When I look at something, at anything, that thing quite literally fills my body. To perceive is to be affected. It is silly to think that we have some soul, some being, that…”— Daniel Coffeen, hilariousbookbinder.blogspot.com