Ruth

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.”
― Jane Austen, Emma