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“I do not believe in God. I have no religion. But this to me is as close to a church as I have known in this life. It is a holy place. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that ther...”
“There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in ici...”
“I don't like playing playstation. It seems like a waste of time to me. Reading, instead, leaves something inside you.”
“Fairy tales are the skeletons of story, perhaps. Reading them often provides an uneasy sensationa gnawing familiaritythat comforting yet supernatural awareness of living inside a story.”
“To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.”
“He pinched the remaining chapters pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.”
“As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.”
“Shara was already an avid reader by then, but she had never realized until that moment what books meant, the possibility they presented: you could protect them forever, store them up like engineers...”
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
“She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.”
“It is often much harder to get rid of books than it is to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see ag...”
“... Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think have left behind, accompany us throughout our li...”
“Mom, I feel good. This dress makes me feel like someone I didn't know I could be. I've never owned anything like it. But if when you see this - when you see me- you think it's a pity, that it's a s...”
“He pinched the remaining chapters’ pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.”
