True browsing means that we discover shelves and subjects that we could not have anticipated when we started. And the books we read introduce us to other books, as if we are at a magnificent party of the mind, being… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them; they fall… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes. — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
True browsing means that we discover shelves and subjects that we could not have anticipated when we started. And the books we read introduce… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
Can we really be friends with those who don't love the books that we do? Of course we can, but can we really be… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be over could… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
Not only does art imitate life but life imitates art. Perhaps we not only learn about life from stories, perhaps we make our lives… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each time we… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
