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A book is a gift you can open again and again." β Garrison Kellor
"Some books leave us free and some books make us free." β Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." β Charles W. Eliot
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors." β Charles Baudelaire
"There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things." β Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
"Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you." β Carlos Ruiz ZafΓ³n, The Shadow of the Wind
"Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head." β Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies... The man who never reads lives only one." β George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
"Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work." β Khaled Hosseini
"Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone elseβs shoes for a while." β Malorie Blackman
"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that youβre not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong." β F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." β Frederick Douglass
"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere." β Jean Rhys
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." β Joan Didion, The White Album
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