“Oh kindly books! Like true and trusted friends: What blessed cheer your presence with us lends. Whene'er we spend a pleasant hour with you. We find renewed delight, and treasure's new. Dear Friendly Books.”

“People have emotional ties to books, more often than you think...”

“There is nothing better than the encouragemnet of a good friend”

“A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.”

“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”

“Friends, books, cheerful heart, and conscience clearAre the most choice companions we have here.”

“Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?”