Sandra

“Books were her easiest friends. They demanded nothing from her but her attention.”
― Lorna Landvik, Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

“I was just learning how to read and was reading every sign out loud, practising, and when I saw Cockburn Avenue I said Cock Burn Avenue and then asked what's that? And Elf, she must have been eleven or twelve, said that's from too much sex and my mother said shhhh from the front passenger seat and we didn't dare look over at my dad who clutched the wheel and peered out the windshield like a sniper tracking his target. There were two things he didn't ever want to talk about and they were sex and Russia.”
― Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows

“Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.”
― Deb Caletti, He's Gone

“Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry