Donna McCurdy

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Have you really read all those books in your room?”

Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy