Handle with care Quote by Jostein Gaarder

“She tucked the stiff envelope into her pocket and it pressed against her leg all day, reminding her that she had been written to,…

— Rosie Alison

“Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open…

— Christy Hall

“I slipped the envelope into it, there in the wide lower corridor of the Arts Building with people passing me on the way to…

— Alice Munro

“She carried a notebook with her everywhere and brimmed with ideas. She often woke in the night and switched on the light to scribble…

— Josephine Moon

“Today she felt especially comforted by the books that climbed the walls. They were a reminder that any knowledge she desired was hers for…

— Liv Constantine

“She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those…

— Anne Rice

“She allowed herself to look his way, pretending she was glancing at the clock on the wall above the door. He was meticulously lost…

— Kimberly Derting

“But when, from the midst of the printed page, there suddenly sprang out at her these words: 'Here I stand; I can no other,'…

— Anna Kavan

“By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on…

— Louisa May Alcott

“She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.”

— Charles Williams

“Testimony to her belief that life could be managed if things were only kept in their proper places.”

— Carolee Dean

“She was home, among the mayor's books of every color and description, with their silver and gold lettering. She could smell the pages. She…

— Markus Zusak