Reading can be dangerous.

She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.

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.

In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.