Susan Shultz > Quotes

“I sort the books and feel their covers. I run my fingers through their words. I flip through the pages. If I'm quiet, I can hear them whispering to me without words, tugging at my insides, calling me, seducing me into their world, opening themselves to me and inviting me inside.”
― Susan Shultz, The Blacksmith

“Because books are alive. They are more alive than you and me. Books live forever. They live on in their own jackets. They live on in their reader's memory. They live on in their writer's minds.”
― Susan Shultz, The Blacksmith

“I have always loved books. When I was a small child, I would sneak any form of light I could find into my room and read as late as I could. Because books are alive. They are more alive than you and me. Books live forever. They live on in their own jackets. They live on in the reader's memory. They live on in their writers' minds.”
― Susan Shultz, The Blacksmith

“You're such a pretty girl. Why do you hide under all those clothes?"
Because I like to hide, grandmother. There are ugly things within me that no one should ever see.”
― Susan Shultz, The Blacksmith