Terryls

“Reading shapes a person. The landscape of books is more real, in some ways, than the one outside the window. It isn't experienced at a remove; it is internal, vital.”
― Kate Morton, Homecoming

“inside their covers were whole wide worlds, filled with people and places and hijinks and humor, just waiting for him to join them.”
― Kate Morton, Homecoming

“There's other ways to travel."
She was right. He had books, and there was no barrier to the places he could visit in his own mind.”
― Kate Morton, Homecoming

“Home, she'd realized, wasn't a place or a time or a person, though it could be any and all of those things: home was a feeling, s sense of being complete. The opposite of "home" wasn't "away," it was "lonely." When someone said, "I want to go home," what they really meant was that they didn't want to feel lonely anymore.”
― Kate Morton, Homecoming