Amy

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book. A message to us from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.”
― Charles Kingsley

“Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.”
― Charles Dickens