You don’t like people?” Raf asked. “I don’t like what people do to each other. ― Matthew Reilly, Troll Mountain

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

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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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Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.

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

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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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To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash. — Bill Nye

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

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