“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”  – Ernest Hemingway

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain

“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.” — Gary Paulsen

I  simply love reading and writing. If it were not for these two pursuits (along with sketching and drawing) I'd, quite honestly, go stark raving mad. Without books, I feel incomplete. Books breath color to my life: they thrill me,move me, inspire me and ultimately free me.