Annie

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden