“I'd treat myself to a reading marathon all weekend. All the ice cream I could eat, all the pages I could read..”

“If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.”

“I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.”

“I had done this all by myself. No one had performed the magic for me. I and the shapes were alone together, revealing themselves in a silently respectful dialogue. Since I could bare lines into living reality, I was all powerful. I could read.”

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”

“As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.”

“Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.”

“Every American may have equal access to ice cream, but there's no guarantee that the outcome of eating ice cream will be equal.”

“Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.”