Arlene

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides