Colette Thoreau

“Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.”
― A.M. Hudson

“Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And I'd like to have the most enormous library, and I'd like to think that I could read those books forever and forever, and die unlamented, unknown, unsung, unhonored - and packed with information.”
― Richard Francis Burton

“When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic.”
― Julian Barnes, A Life with Books