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“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“I don't know," I said. "Whether or not he can write his own name seems to have very little impact on his ability to be an ass.”
― Danielle Bennett, Havemercy

“It was a lazy community of mutual disinterest and alcohol.”
― Ginn Hale, Wicked Gentlemen

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys