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

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

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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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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

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Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. ―Rumi

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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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You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. ― Lou Holtz

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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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