Liv

“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever.

I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.”
― Judy Blume, Summer Sisters

“What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go