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

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Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself -- Rumi

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A book is a gift you can open again and again.

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

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When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there’s those days when you feel like Superman. It’s just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better. — Mac Miller

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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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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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You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. ― Frederick Buechner

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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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