Kate Ward

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being