"This book should be read as one..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.”

“The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.”

“Men hate those to whom they have to lie.”

“An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.”

“If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”

“Books, the children of the brain.”

“I read the whole Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. They don't take long.”

“Reading musses up my mind.”

“Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.”