Lauren

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
― Ezra Pound