Marla

“Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what's inside will change your life, but sometimes you don't even have to read it. Sometimes it's a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven't even had their spines cracked. 'Why do you buy books you don't even read?' our daughter asks us. That's like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

“Solitude enrobed me like a long, warm coat.”
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

“A motto of mine had long been, “When the heart isn’t in it, all zest in the job is destroyed,”
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke