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 mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside 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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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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

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

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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 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 word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

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