"That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

"Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

"Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

"Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

"Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon receiving your letter. I have gone to them for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

"We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another."
— Mary Ann Shaffer

""Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)