Basma Parkar

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack