Kathy Leppert

“freedom that could cost your life was just enslavement under a different name.”
― Amanda Joy, A River of Royal Blood

“When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled. And during this time, these days when I read all day and half the night, when I slept under a counterpane strewn with books, when my sleep was black and dreamless and passed in a flash and I woke to read again—the lost joys of reading returned to me.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“It wasn’t an alternative to experience, or an escape from it. Not if you did it right. Reading was the only way we could transcend our own experience and deeply engage in that of another’s.”
― Olivia Goldsmith, The Bestseller

“Having faith is believing in something you just know ain't true.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn