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.

But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed.

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

Reading can be dangerous.

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?

To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.