Bessma Bader

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“not all problems looked the same, but that didn’t mean they weren’t problems.”
― Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes