Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

George R.R. Martin

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Guy de Maupassant

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Charles Dickens

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

Isabel Allende

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Robert Frost

It is ‘where we are’ that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.

Chang-rae Lee

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

Cherie Priest

“You are loved by so many and so much and by no one more than me.”

–Doctor Who

“Love isn’t an emotion. Love is a promise.” –Doctor Who