You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. Paul Sweeney
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. G. K. Chesterton
"Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest." Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings