Elia

“She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.”
― E.M. Delafield, Diary of a Provincial Lady

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle