Shannon

“Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.”
― Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch

“Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.”
― Mary Norris, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

“Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.”
― George Eliot

“In crisis, I circled my wagons, more afraid of being disappointed by someone than going it alone.”
― Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship