{bookworm}

After Mass this morning the girls and I ran a few errands. On the way home we made a quick stop in Snohomish. Torrey's favorite stop is always Uppercase Book Store. Today we picked up a few of Shakespeare's plays and a copy Shakespeare for Dummies. Since she's already finished two full history textbooks this year, I figured this would be a nice filler. 

We made a quick stop to Emma's favorite antique shop to browse the goodies for a bit. She was hoping to come home with a tiara, but her mean old mom said no.

"The highest use of the great masters of literature is not literary; it is apart from their superb style and even from their emotional inspiration. The first use of good literature is that it prevents a man from being merely modern. To be merely modern is to condemn oneself to an ultimate narrowness; just as to spend one’s last earthly money on the newest hat is to condemn oneself to the old-fashioned. The road of the ancient centuries is strewn with dead moderns. Literature, classic and enduring literature, does its best work in reminding us perpetually of the whole round of truth and balancing other and older ideas against the ideas to which we might for a moment be prone."  

-G.K. Chesterton

"Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life." 
-G.K. Chesterton