Ashley Pettit

“There’s something almost miraculous about seeing a child’s eyes light up when you hand him a book that intrigues him. I’ve always thought that it’s those children—the ones who realize that books are magic—who will have the brightest lives.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

“You’re overthinking it.’ ‘I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“You can’t judge a person by their language or their place of origin—though it seems that each new generation insists upon learning that lesson for itself.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

“anyone who saw the magic in books had to be good.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names