Dara

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.”
― Lloyd Alexander