Ally

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.”
― Elizabeth Drew

“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live us many more lives and as many kind of lives as we wish.”
― S.I. Hayakawa

“Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be...”
― William Wordsworth