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"I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held them. All those eyes that have read them."

―Same Sun Here by Neela Vaswani

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“A library was a home to those who dreamt of better places.”

―Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken

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“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”

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“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free”

— Frederick Douglass

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"Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else."

― William Faulkner

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it's me, my 17 personalities, 228 playlists and 479 unread books against the world

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"Let's go to a bookstore and I'll buy you books" is a love language

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This is how I lived back then– through books. I locked myself into their stories, dreamt of their characters at night, pretended to be them. They were my armour against the hard edges of reality.  

― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

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"As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door."

―David Mitchell

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“Is there anything better than iced coffee and a bookstore on a sunny day? I mean, aside from hot coffee and a bookstore on a rainy day.”

Emily Henry, Book Lovers

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"A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection."

-The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente

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We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like being banished into forests far from everyone. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.

Franz Kafka

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"I do not read to think. I do not read to learn. I do not read to search for truth. I know the truth. The truth is hardly what I need. I read to dream. I read to live."

-I Read, Passion the Musical

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“It’s like you don’t live in the real world. You live in a world of stories.’As if that were a terrible thing.”― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns