The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. Elizabeth Hardwick

“Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.”

― Elizabeth Hardwick

“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
― Elizabeth Hardwick 

 

“When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.”
― Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights