Mandy

“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

“One should never underestimate the power of books.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
― Mason Cooley