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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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

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Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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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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I can survive well enough on my own – if given the proper reading material.

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

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

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

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

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