"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much."
-George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

"Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented."
-John Green

"Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic."
-J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter

"One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for books have the power to change us."
-Cassandra Clare

"Books are a uniquely portable magic."
-Stephen King

"So I did. Although there was nothing written on the page, I pulled word after word from my core, like silk from a spider's web, spinning a make-believe life. That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?"
-Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities."
-J.R.R. Tolkien

"We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story its going to be."
-Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle


If I could go back... I would have done things differently.