Brooke

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”
― Gary Paulsen

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
― Wilkie Collins, Armadale

“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka