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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.”
― E.M. Delafield, Diary of a Provincial Lady

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!”
― J.M. Barrie

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle