Carmen Harris

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle