Paul Richards

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
― Anita Desai

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.”
― Eavan Boland

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley