Julia

“The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum

“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft