Their lives had another forty seconds to run.

“Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.”

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Mur…”

“I want to make you laugh or cry when you read a story . . .or do both at the sa…”

“Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying aff…”