Madeleine

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain