That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.

Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.