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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Why raise children on the promise of magic? Why create a want in them that can never be satisfied—for revelation, for transformation—and then set them adrift in a bleak, pragmatic world?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Some three years after the end of the war my father died. He died as he had lived, quietly and with more thought for others than for himself.”
― Mary Stewart, Thornyhold

“Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you...”
― Mary Stewart, Nine Coaches Waiting