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“But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, In the Mountains

“What a blessing it is to love books.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Solitary Summer

“What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Solitary Summer

“If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Solitary Summer

“Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Solitary Summer

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.”
― Stella Gibbons

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan