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

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Even broken clocks survive time — so can you.

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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 book is a gift you can open again and again.

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