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“...there are pleasures to be had from books beyond being lightly entertained. There is the pleasure of being challenged; the pleasure of feeling one’s range and capacities expanding; the pleasure of entering into an unfamiliar world, and being led into empathy with a consciousness very different from one’s own; the pleasure of knowing what others have already thought it worth knowing, and entering a larger conversation. (The New Yorker, 13 Aug 2014)”
― Rebecca Mead

“Where I used to image you as a girl with a bag full of stones, ready to throw them at any foe who crossed her path, you have become the stone itself. You are steady and able.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good. Without you, my life would still exist, but that's all it would manage to do.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“You can't have a relationship in a bubble. It won't survive.”
― Kiera Cass, The One