Lisa Lynch

“What, exactly, is impelling Jack Torrence toward murder... Is it undead people or undead memories?... perhaps those different conclusions are, in fact, the same. For aren't memories the true ghosts of our lives? Do they not drive us to words and acts we regret from time to time?”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew — and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents — that there was all the difference in the world.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“By the transport of books, that which is most foreign becomes one's familiar walks and avenues; while that which is most familiar is removed to delightful strangeness; and unmoving, one travels infinite causeways; immobile and thus unfettered.”
― M. T. Anderson

“Unsupervised reading is a blessing for a certain kind of child.”
― Victor LaValle, The Changeling