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“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

“Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
― O. Henry

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
― Jude Deveraux

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
― Gabrielle Roy

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

“We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

“The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.”
― Andre Maurois

“Intuition is seeing with the soul.”
― Dean Koontz

“Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
― Tom Perrotta, Election