I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. — Maya Angelou

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The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

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

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

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

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I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That’s a lot of coloring when you think about it. — Adam Sandler

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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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You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. ― Frederick Buechner

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Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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

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