Karen Conner

“The Wilhelm Gustloff was pregnant with lost souls conceived of war. They would crowd into her belly and she would give birth to their freedom.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

“Reading, she tells me, is what she does best. She loves it because it uses the whole of her, the right and the left, the hemispheres of reason and imagination. She discovered as a child that a closed book is a darkness anyone can enter, not a cary darkness like a basement or a storm, but a comforting one that wrapped her up neatly inside a world she could control.”
― Jenny Hubbard, Paper Covers Rock

“Read to your heart's content. Though if you are a reader, the heart is never content.”
― Jenny Hubbard, Paper Covers Rock