Reading For Escape Quotes

“The library was my only blessing. Every time I climbed the stairs, my heart lifted. All day, I looked forward to the happy hours I spent in that beautiful room. My guilt over appa's fate was too heavy to carry up there, and I learned to leave it below, somewhere on the ground floor. I left the house far behind as I walked on the path paved by the books, and every evening, baby Mangalam slept soundly on the bed I made for her on the window seat.”
― Padma Venkatraman, Climbing the Stairs

“Everytime I climbed the stairs, my heart lifted.”
― Padma Venkatraman, Climbing the Stairs

“The human yearning for innocent pastime is a pathetic thing, come to think about it. It shows what a desperately grim thing life has become.”
― Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop by Morley Christopher Morley