Sharon

“He put his hand over hers. "Am I a coward?"

"Because you are afraid? No. Only fools are never afraid.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Perilous Sea

“Like so many of the other books I read, it never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I had lived in, had visited and would visit again, just as all the people in them, every blessed one – Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, Jay Gatsby, Elizabeth Bennet, Scarlet O'Hara, Dill and Scout, Miss Marple, and Hercule Poirot – were more real than the real people I knew.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess