When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.

Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.

Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.