Rae

“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

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain