Zoe

“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
― Philip Roth

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

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”
― John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays