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“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”
― Toni Morrison

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell