Bookshelf

“So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me.”
― Julia Donaldson

“the cheapest, most pleasurable way for a country of strangers to get to know each other and the rest of the world is through reading.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017

“manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch