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

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

“So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.”

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”