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

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

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

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

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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

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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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We carry our stories like shadows—unseen but always present.

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