One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.

How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.

The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me.

We live and breathe words.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Words have the power to change us." - Tessa Gray