Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

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Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

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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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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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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. ―Rumi

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

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

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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

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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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