Books Are For Learning

I wish that college left a little more time for reading books that aren't required and don't cost exorbitant amounts of money. In fact, one picture I had in my brain of what I would look like as a hip college student went a little something like this:

Yeah, that's pretty much who I secretly think I am. Anyways, I have been thinking about one of my favorite books, All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, and one quote in particular that has stuck with me. You know when it is the middle of the night and something just hits you and you want to always remember it? Here it goes:


"I wanted very much to be a person of value and I had to ask myself how this could be possible if there were not something like a soul or like a spirit that is in the life of a person and which could endure any misfortune or disfigurement and yet be no less for it. If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to the hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what. Long before morning. I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first." 


Yeah. I could do with a little more reading of books.