Amanda

“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist