-Shadowlands, William Nicholson
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
— Stephen King
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. "
-Hamlet, Act I, Scene V, William Shakespeare
- Neil Gaiman
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. 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.”
— James Baldwin
― Alice Hoffman
-Henry V, prologue, William Shakespeare
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
―Madeleine L'Engle
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvin
― Jo Walton
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
― Carl Sagan
― Ursula K. Le Guin
“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.”
― Diane Setterfield