Christine

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Books are a narcotic.”
― Franz Kafka