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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Hope is the spark that lights up the darkest nights.

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

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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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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

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Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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A smile is the simplest form of kindness that can light up someone’s darkest day.

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

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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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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

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