Erika Stuart

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls