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

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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

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Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. ―Rumi

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

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If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. ― Lou Holtz

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

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