"Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us to live and die."   -- Anne Lamott

"I love books. I love that  moment when you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be." --- Elizabet Scott

"Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to finds words for what we already know." -- Alberto Manguel