Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. When you read this way, characters go from hope to despair, from self-knowledge to doubt. In love stories, couples start out as lovers and end as strangers. Coming-of-age books become stories of losing your way. Your favorite characters come back to life.

I’ve read many more books than you. It doesn’t matter how many you’ve read.I’ve read more. Believe me. I’ve had the time.

I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me.

Who reads? Not that I begrudge my life in book. All I know about the world I've learned from them. But a description of a tree is not a tree, and a thousand paper kisses will never equal the feel of Olly's lips against mine.

Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.

Everyone’s got someplace to be. Finding God is not on the schedule. - The sun is also a star