Amber

“And there are books. Readers know that, when their heart hurts with loss or absence, then a book that they have read before can lessen the ache. Readers, faced with a new experience, find a book to help them navigate: a travel guide to a new city, say, but also a novel set there.”
― Stephanie Butland, Found in a Bookshop

“Women brought death upon themselves simply by being women, it seemed. Avoiding death was just an expected part of life for them—the constant mental calculations, the weighing up of choices, of risk.”
― Elizabeth Arnott, The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives

“Reading should be a pleasure and a joy, an education and a promise, a release and an escape. The books you choose for yourself should never, ever feel like a punishment or a chore.”
― Stephanie Butland, Found in a Bookshop

“I think, so long as someone knows your story, you are alive in the world.”
― Stephanie Butland, The Book of Kindness