“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.”

–Joyce Carol Oates [Attributed]

“After I read a good book I have a hard time coping with reality.”

–anonymous

“ I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither.— The more one reads the more one sees We have to read—”

–John Adams, 2nd President of the United States

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”

– Joseph Campbell [See Source Note for important context]

“You don’t need bigger boobs. You need to read better books.”

– anonymous

“…We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”

– Ernest Hemingway

“A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you, but only you can save yourself.”

– Anthony Anaxagorou