“ A long time ago, I opened a book, and this is what I found inside: a whole new world. It isn't the world I live in, although sometimes it looks a lot like it. Sometimes, though, it feels closest to my… Laura Miller
“ She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all do… Eleanor Brown
“ What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream the rest are not worth reading. Rikki Ducornet
“ He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then he tried to lift my bag."My God," he said. "What happened?""I found out one may c… Laura Whitcomb
“ He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memo… Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“ Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again. Maud Hart Lovelace
“ We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the k… Eleanor Brown
“ The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel far beyond the confines of our immediate world. Books introduce us to great fi… Ben Jacobs
“ While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the 'new', which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we have to go on exploring sex, books, and travel, alth… Roberto Bolaño
“ But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workaday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colo… Laura Amy Schlitz
“ As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories… Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“ ...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books. Helen Simonson
“ These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were c… John Connolly
“ But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books stood in knee-high piles on the floor, books were crammed… Steven Millhauser
“ I need someone who can be invisible, who can become a ghost. Do you think you can do that?"I'm already a ghost, she thought. I died in the hold of a slaver ship."i think so. Leigh Bardugo
