“Tolstoy wrote, 'The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.' He understood this service as a religious duty. For me, I understand it as a fact of life, as THE fact of life. What we do for each other… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
“And in reading, I discovered that the burden of living is the uneven and unlimited allotment of pain. Tragedy is conferred randomly and unfairly.… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
“Life is hard, unfair, painful. But life is also guaranteed - one hundred percent, no doubt, no question - to offer unexpected and sudden moments of beauty, joy, love, acceptance, euphoria." The good stuff. It is our ability to recognize and then hold on to the moments of good stuff that allows us to survive, even thrive. And when we… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share
“My hiatus is over, my soul and body are healed, but I will never leave the purple chair for long. So many books waiting… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
“The truth of living is proved not by the inevitability of death but by the wonder that we lived at all. Remembering lives from the past ratifies that truth, more and more so the older we get. When I was growing up, my father told me once, "Do by look for happiness; life itself is happiness." It took me years… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share
“Books. The more I thought about how to stop and get myself back together as one sane, whole person, the more I thought about books. I thought about escape. Not running to escape but reading to escape. Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that “words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.” That was… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share
“Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable.” — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
“We are what we love to read, and when we admit to loving a book, we admit that the book represents some aspect of… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
“...but I know that I can survive the hard times, taking the worst of what happens to me as a burden but not as… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
“The value of experience, real or imagined, is that is shows us how to - or how NOT to - live. In reading about… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
“Desire for a person is not the same thing as having that unique appreciation and need for them, nor is affection. Desire waxes and… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
