Honey

“The reader became the book; and summer night
Was like the conscious being of the book.”
― Wallace Stevens

“Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.”
― John Piper, A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life

“I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker

“Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.”
― Helen Humphreys, Coventry