Julie Schumacher quotes:

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?

Boredom is why God invented books.

Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.

A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.

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.

I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.

I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.

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.