Samara

“Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale