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again, only to groan, tear away from the illuminated buildings, and head into the blackness once more. Each stop was a luminescent island in the dark. The boat was a needle, threading the glowing pearls of an enormous necklace. Did the
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“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.”
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“Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that ‘words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.’ That was how I wanted to use books: as an escape back to life. I wanted to engulf myself in books and come up whole again.
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― Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
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― Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
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“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
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