The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out. (Donna Tartt)

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

Donna Tartt

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