Rachel

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

“Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.”
― Sven Birkerts

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien