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

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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

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

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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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