“When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.”
“When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue--you sell him a whole new life.”
“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.”
“You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.”
“When life gives you someone very special, you don’t have to dream anymore”
“I don’t have home without him”, Carrie said when doctor asked her to go home.“I won’t give up on him. Do you hear me, Doctor? Don’t you give up on him!”