Quotes from Ramona Koval

I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.

I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be over could be part of a bigger one.

That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

Can we really be friends with those who don't love the books that we do? Of course we can, but can we really be friends with those who don't love any books? I'm not so sure of that.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.