"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

"We read to know we're not alone."

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

"We are told that God is love. But when we think of love, we think of something soft and gentle. God's love is a consuming fire."