I've always been a magnet for guilt.

We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in the questions that arise as we read, in the answers that we find, in the degree of satisfaction or unease we feel with those answers...In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story.

A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.

If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

Libraries are the pride of the city.