Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life... - Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

"That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment."

"Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again."

"Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books."

"Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it."

"I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted."