Davina Powell

“Like all mothers”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“product here is not so much books as that goal of ten thousand years of history, the thing the human brain craves above all else and nature will die refusing to give: convenience. Ease is the disease and Nick is its vector. His employers are a virus that will one day live symbiotically inside everyone. Once you’ve bought a novel in your pajamas, there’s no turning back.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Never again in life would he let perfect be the enemy of good.”
― Richard Powers, Playground

“With all due respect, what you read is more important in the long term than the man you marry, ma chère Madame.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop