"When books fall open, you fall in"


"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind"



"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
― Charles William Eliot



"Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head." 
― Paul Auster