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

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The mirror never lies, but it doesn’t tell the whole story either.

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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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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

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

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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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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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Maps can’t show the real destination—it’s always somewhere inside you.

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