Fancifying words with pretty graphics makes me happy. It's always my goal to bring joy to others, too, so I'm sharing some of the pics I've made from my own books.

In case it's not your thing, I'll tag them all with #BookQuote for ease of muting.

Here's the first one.

“They know things from so deep and far that we have forgotten that we have forgotten that we have forgotten them.” -- from 'Impossible Creatures' by Katherine Rundell; illus. Virginia Allyn

"I come here to listen, to nestle in the curve of the roots in a soft hollow of pine needles, to lean my bones against the column of white pine, to turn off the voice in my head until I can hear the voices outside it: the shh of wind in needles, water trickling over rock, nuthatch tapping, chipmunks digging, beechnut falling, mosquito in my ear, and something more-something that is not me, for which we have no language, the wordless being of others in which we are never alone." - from 'Braiding Sweetgrass' by Robin Wall Kimmerer

"Firmness, I may observe, was the grand quality on which both Mr. and Miss Murdstone took their stand. However I might have expressed my comprehension of it at that time, if I had been called upon, I nevertheless did clearly comprehend in my own way, that it was another name for tyranny; and for a certain gloomy, arrogant, devil’s humour, that was in them both." - From David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

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"Colour seemed flung down anyhow, anywhere; every sort of colour, piled up in heaps, pouring along in rivers—the periwinkles looked exactly as if they were being poured down each side of the steps—and flowers that grow only in borders in England, proud flowers keeping themselves to themselves over there, such as the great blue irises and the lavender, were being jostled by small, shining common things like dandelions and daisies and the white bells of the wild onion, and only seemed the better and the more exuberant for it." -- from 'The Enchanted April' by Elizabeth Von Arnim

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"But allow me to inform you of what any good friend would point out: most people find your very presence pretty unpleasant; your encounters leave a mental aftertaste much like an unpleasant aroma."

- Assholes: A Theory, by Aaron James

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"Christmas doesn't like me. It's a conspiracy. Christmas is a conspiracy to make single people feel lonely." - Michael, Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

Make your own story today. If you're flying solo, don't be afraid to start a story with someone new.

There are already enough conspiracy theories out there. #JoinIn

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"He can draft a contract, train a falcon, draw a map, stop a street fight, furnish a house and fix a jury. He will quote you a nice point in the old authors, from Plato to Plautus and back again. He knows new poetry, and can say it in Italian." -- from Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

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"Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof." -- from 'Dust Tracks on a Road' by Zora Neale Hurston

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"Over the green plain he went, alone, running just to run, kicking just to kick, until he tired of that place and chose to follow the course of the wind." -- from 'Land of Smoke' by Sara Gallardo (trans. Jessica Sequeira)

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“He was a man of very few words, and as it was impossible to talk, one had to keep silent. It’s hard work talking to some people, most often males. I have a Theory about it. With age, many men come down with testosterone autism, the symptoms of which are a gradual decline in social intelligence and capacity for interpersonal communication, as well as a reduced ability to formulate thoughts. The Person beset by this Ailment becomes taciturn and appears to be lost in contemplation. He develops an interest in various Tools and machinery, and he’s drawn to the Second World War and the biographies of famous people, mainly politicians and villains. His capacity to read novels almost entirely vanishes; testosterone autism disturbs the character’s psychological understanding." - from 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead' by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

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Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.
― Tanya Huff
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"And once the viewer’s attention was well and truly put to sleep, a new sight loomed out of the picture, the old contours arranged themselves into something completely different that had not seemed to be there before, but must have been, since now he could see it." -- from 'The Empusium' by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

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"Rich people... generally become most enraged when they sense they're about to be held accountable for their wrongs."

- from The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

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"The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words." -- from 'The Language of the Night' by Ursula K. Le Guin

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There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.
― Susanna Clarke
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