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“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Everyone gets one last line. But first lines, stories of love and loss and hope floating on backs of paper cranes? We choose how many of those we get to tell.”
― Kate Bassett, Words and Their Meanings

“Hope is not a thing with feathers. It's an anchor. And it will drown them.”
― Kate Bassett, Words and Their Meanings

“It's the loving, more than the talent, that's the rarest gift.”
― Kate Bassett, Words and Their Meanings