Donna Lundy

“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time — proof that humans can work magic.”
― Carl Sagan

“No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.”
― John Alfred Langford

“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.”
― Frank Serafini

“Medical research has revealed that in about one-tenth of the population, the liver processes alcohol differently, releasing a chemical messenger that creates the craving for another drink; once that second drink is taken, the desire is doubled. But the real problem of the alcoholic is actually centered in the mind, because we can’t remember why it was such a bad idea to pick up that first drink. Once we start, we can’t stop; and when we stop, we can’t remember why we shouldn’t start again. It is a form of mental illness, like a manic-depressive who, after being stabilized on medication for a while, suddenly decides she is fine and no longer needs her pills.”
― Kaylie Jones, Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir