Outside of a Dog Quotes

“Reading is how we learn to attach ourselves to ourselves, and to others, and to the world: reading inhabits us with the tendrils of love.”
― Rick Gekoski, Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoar

“You can't simply put a book down or away.”
― Rick Gekoski, Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoar

“To look at those (few) books in the dawning recognition that what they furnish is not a room, but a self.”
― Rick Gekoski, Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoar

“What is so addictive about fiction is that it is the one reliable place in which we can apprehend and participate in - fully understand - the inward world of another person.”
― Rick Gekoski, Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoar