Amanda R

“Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.”
― Clifton Fadiman, The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classic Guide to World Literature

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“There’s this world,’ she banged the wall graphically, ‘and there’s this world,’ she thumped her chest. ‘If you want to make sense of either, you have to take notice of both.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit