“Did I miss the denial, anger, and bargaining phases, or did you leap straight to depression?”

“Blood rushed to the regions of my body that I associated with naughtiness, and I was powerless to stop it.”

“Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.”

“King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...it was he supposed, thinking back on it, the first book that had showed him what reading ...”

“I finally found my way to the Really Restricted Section, where they keep the kind of books most scholars aren't even supposed to know exist. I knocked on the closed door, said the proper passwords,...”

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”