“Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.”

“I had read history too closely, read of Caesar and the Roman Empire. I had not noticed that in the books there were white spaces between each line; the white spaces are there to remind you of the unspoken, unwritten truth. When one only reads the words and does not read what is not written in the book, then one will never learn to understand.”

“The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight.”

“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.”

“A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.”

“My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.”