Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.

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

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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

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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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A good would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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I can survive well enough on my own – if given the proper reading material.

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We carry our stories like shadows—unseen but always present.

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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

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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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