“Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.”

“In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.”

“You see, Armand, there was a new hunger within me, and on some days I can assure you I felt fairly ravenous. The need to read took over me, a delicious and exhilarating hold. The more I read, the hungrier I became. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams.”

“Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.”

“I need to experience books, not just read them.”

“She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.”