Alexandra Bemm

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman