Mandy

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
― Mason Cooley

“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“One should never underestimate the power of books.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves