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“The true Christian ideal is not to be happy, but to be holy.”
― A. W. Tozer

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

“I often went to bed early, around nine thirty, but usually I read for at least an hour, sometimes more. A lot more. If a book could draw me in, if the next chapter begged to be read, sleep was irrelevant.”
― Kylie Key, The Bookworm

“Well, sometimes you just couldn’t abandon a story, not when you absolutely needed to know if the ancient prophecy was going to be fulfilled! Princes, dragons, wizards, villains, rebel princesses—I loved getting lost in different worlds, the wonderful universes that were created in the pages of a book by someone else, but brought into existence by you. Yes, books were magical, they were my salvation, my friends.”
― Kylie Key, The Bookworm

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The only people who are really successful are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“I mean, what man wants to “sit in a bookstore and read while holding hands and drinking coffee for at least an hour”? Because that’s number ten on this list. Now that I think about it, I wish I did know a man who wanted to do that with me. I’d marry him on the spot.”
― Courtney Walsh, My Phony Valentine

“God exists infinitely and nothing finite can grasp Him infinitely.”
― Thomas Aquinas