1.
I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.
Julie Schumacher
2.
Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.
Julie Schumacher
3.
Boredom is why God invented books.
Julie Schumacher
4.
Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?
Julie Schumacher
5.
Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.
Julie Schumacher
6.
A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.
Julie Schumacher
7.
My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.
Julie Schumacher
8.
I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.
Julie Schumacher