Karen Conner

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

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

“You have to stop and freeze the moment," he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by repeating it in your head over and over. You have to write to preserve your sanity.”
― Jenny Hubbard, Paper Covers Rock

“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