Why read?

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” 

― Oscar Wilde

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” 
― James Baldwin

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” 
― Oscar Wilde

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” 
― Mortimer Jerome Adler

“We read to know that we are not alone.” 
― William Nicholson

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” 
― Anna Quindlen