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

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

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

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Where words leave off, music begins. —Heinrich Heine

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

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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

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

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

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