Amanda

“It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”
― Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

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