Barbara

“If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.”
― Clive James

“No, give me the past. It doesn’t change; it’s all there in black and white, and you can get to know about it comfortably and decorously and, above all, privately - by reading. … As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
― Henry Austin Dobson

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket