The library was one of the few places approved by my…

Every child needs a safe place to fall - a place where he or she can explore things without worrying about failure and judgment.…

— Bill Harley

“In the nineteenth century,” he observed, “Jules Verne wrote Round the World in Eighty Days. It seemed a prodigy. Now you can get around…

— William Manchester

“In the case of Sean Carter, one hundred and eighty days in a mental ward.”

— Nako

“One hundred eighty days, Aislinn. Seth's been gone for one hundred eighty days, and I've watched you try to pretend it doesn't hurt for…

— Melissa Marr

“Eighty days ago today, I made a pact with myself. A pact that has already begun to change my life in ways I never…

— Heather Anne Talpa

He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed…

— Jules Verne

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy…

— Michael Morpurgo

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

— Beverly Cleary

My mother read me biblical stories at night.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“[M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays and Christmas would come, I would…

— Dave Eggers

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent…

— Masiela Lusha

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.

— Strickland Gillilan

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first…

— Alice Hoffman

'Fault' became the book everybody and their mother had to read, and 'Paper Towns' is one that's beloved, but it's a bit of a…

— Wyck Godfrey

“I had a mother who read to me Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea. Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth; "Blackbirds" stowed in…

— Strickland Gillilan