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

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We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear. ― Bill Russell

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Don’t let shame define you; learn, grow, and rise above it.

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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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The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ― Rumi

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Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

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I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life. -- Rumi

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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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