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“L'essere notata non mi va a genio, questo mi pare chiaro.”
“Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second novel in a series, I understood what it meant to befriend a book. The books knew me, far better than ...”
“The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.”
“They take their drama firsthand, in the real world, while I prefer the drama of fictional charactersin worlds where things happen for a reason, where questions are answered, where conflicts are alw...”
“Who can know when his world is going to change? . . . Who would suspect that in the morning a different child would wake? . . . Perhaps I should have at least known something, but maybe not; who ca...”
“On a cloudy day, when the dim dance of the firelight and the warmth of the sconces are not enough, the books shed their own form of light. By the hundreds, they fill the shelves that stretch across...”