“There are pleasures in reading so startling, so intense, they shade into pain. The realization that one’s life has been irrevocably altered by . . . can it be mere words? Print on a page? The most life-rending discoveries involve what has in fact never been thought, never given form, until another’s…”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com
“I opened a book. Something which has—in all my years on this planet — never ben a particularly dangerous activity.”— Jack Thorne, Scorpius Malfoy, amazon.com
“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?”— Anthony Trollope, amazon.com