To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

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Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you.

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

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I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.

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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

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