“when you’re young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don’t Lyra.”— Philip Pullman Related Quotes “The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.”— Michael Cunningham “Don’t look at me like that,” said Ruza.”Like what?””Like I’m a beautiful book you’re about to open and plunder with your greedy mad eyes.”— Laini Taylor “What is more natural than that a solidity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader and Reader, thanks to the book? You can leave the bookshop content, you, a man who thought that the period where you could still expect something from life had ended. You are bearing with you two different expectations, and both promise days of pleasant hopes; the expectation contained in the book – of a reading experience you are impatient to resume – and the expectation contained in that telephone number – of hearing again the vibrations, a times treble and at times smoldering, of that voice, when it will answer your first phone call in a while, in fact tomorrow, with the fragile pretext of the book, to ask her if she likes it or not, to tell her how many pages you have read or not read, to suggest to her that you meet again…”— Italo Calvino