Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.

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

I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.

The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now.

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.

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