"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."                         -Sylvia Plath

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." 
                                                                   -Jane Austen

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."                                                     - Lemony Snicket

"Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good."                                       -Romans 12:9

"I want to write so magically that even the old, sun-bleached cottage with two instead of three pairs of shoes by the door can tell a thousand pages worth of emotion." -Unknown