Welllll maybe not good, but forgiven.

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”

“Where there is love there is life.”

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”