Julie Schumacher Quotes

Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.

Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?

Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.

Boredom is why God invented books.

I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.

I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.