Andrea

“In after years Miranda knew that her first sight of Dragonwyck was the most vivid and significant impression of her life. She stared at the fantastic silhouette which loomed dark against the eastern sky, the spires and gables and chimneys dominated in the center by one high tower; and it was as though the good and evil, the happiness and tragedy, which she was to experience under that roof materialized into physical force and struck across the quiet river into her soul.”
― Anya Seton, Dragonwyck

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice