Cynthia

“I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.”
― James Lee Burke, Pegasus Descending

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