Rebecca Pucci

Representation Manifestation “O my Courageous Sister! You have to become the beacon of hope for all women around you and then for the whole society.” ― Abhijit Naskar

Mirror This “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Friendship “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.” ― Irving Stone

Mourning “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” ― W. Somerset Maugham

Rising “Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.” –Terry Pratchett

Commune “If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grown out of it.” –Nancy Pearl

Making Ends Meet “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.” ― Alan Bennett

Of Many Hats “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies […] The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin

Relax “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.” ― Paul Auster

A Hero’s Journey