“Books are like magic carpets, taking us to places real and imaginary that we never thought possible.”

“Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous”

“And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be. ”

“Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.”

“It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.”

“in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.”

“The reader became the book; and summer nightWas like the conscious being of the book.”