"Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books."
- Adelise M. Cullens
"Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered."
- Kimberly McCreight
"Books open new worlds to me."
- Aya Ling
"Delighted," Jess said. "I think all houses should be stuffed with books. It makes them--""Homes?" the doctor finished. "You are quite the heretic, for someone in a Library uniform.""Guilty."
- Rachel Caine
"King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...it was he supposed, thinking back on it, the first book that had showed him what reading was..."
- Charlie Lovett
"Books are best preserved in the minds of readers."
- Kat Lowe
"The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened"
- L.J. deVet
"I finally found my way to the Really Restricted Section, where they keep the kind of books most scholars aren't even supposed to know exist. I knocked on the closed door, said the proper passwords, an..."
- Simon R. Green
"And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly developed. She could read the novel with ease and great pleasure, laughing at remarks, they were ha..."
- Alan Bennett