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She doesn’t understand what it means to love books so passionately that you would die without them, that you would simply stop breathing, stop existing.
One’s reward for marching through the decades is a gradual process of erasure.
He had taught her to love reading, one of the greatest gifts a parent could give a child, and in doing so, he had opened the world to her.
“Remember that God’s plan for you might be different than the plan you have for yourself.”
“I mean that I would rather die knowing I tried to do the right thing than live knowing I had turned my back.
Life turns on the decisions we make, the single moments that transform everything.
I’ve always thought that it’s those children—the ones who realize that books are magic—who will have the brightest lives.
parents make all sorts of errors, because our ability to raise our children is always colored by the lives we’ve lived before they came along.
Once you’ve fallen in love with books, their presence can make you feel at home anywhere, even in places where you shouldn’t belong.
