“We are rare and we are weird…there is nothing you can do to change us…Really, don’t try. We are so happy, in our own way…Be glad of all the benefits it will bring, rather than lamenting all the fresh air avoided, the friendships not made, the exercise not taken, the body of rewarding and potentially lucrative activities, hobbies, and skills not developed. Leave us be. We’re fine. More than fine. Reading’s our thing.”― Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”―
“We read to know we're not alone.”― Shadowlands: A Play
Portrait of Duranty by Edgar Degas (1879)
“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” ―
Bookworm by Karl Spitzweg (1850)
“I still find libraries astonishing; I still think they speak to our better instincts. The library remains one of the few places in the world where you don’t have to buy anything, know anyone, or believe anything to enter in.”―
In the Bookshop by Viktor Vasnetsov (1876)
“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”― A Hat Full of Sky
Reading Girl by Gustav Adolph Hennig (1828)
“It's the secret we never, ever tell our children. No adult ever read a book because it's good for us. We read because it is fun.”―
The Girl Reading a Book by Jean Honoré Fragonard (1776)
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