Oriole

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

“A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...”
― Vladimir Nabokov