The Books Transported Her Into New Worlds and Introduced Her to Amazing People Who Lived Exciting Lives

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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting

lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest

Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little

room in an English village.”

― Roald Dahl, Matilda

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“Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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“A good book is an event in my life.”

― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

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“She remembered one of her boyfriends asking, offhandedly, how many books she read in a year. "A

few hundred," she said.

"How do you have the time?" he asked, gobsmacked.

She narrowed her eyes and considered the array of potential answers in front of her. Because I don't

spend hours flipping through cable complaining there's nothing on? Because my entire Sunday is not

eaten up with pre-game, in-game, and post-game talking heads? Because I do not spend every night

drinking overpriced beer and engaging in dick-swinging contests with the other financirati? Because

when I am waiting in line, at the gym, on the train, eating lunch, I am not complaining about the

wait/staring into space/admiring myself in reflective surfaces? I am reading!

"I don't know," she said, shrugging.”

― Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters

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“I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all

around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”

― Roger Zelazny

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“It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.”

― Tracy Chevalier

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“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”

― Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book


“I pull my foot back again, but Four's hands clamp around my arms, and he pulls me away from her with

irresistible force. I breathe through gritted teeth, staring at Molly's blood-covered face, the color deep

and rich and beautiful, in a way. She groans, and I hear a gurgling in her throat, watch blood trickle from

her lips. "You won," Four mutters. "Stop." I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes

too wide; they look alarmed. "I think you should leave," he says. "Take a walk." I'm fine," I say. "I'm fine

now," I say again, this time for myself.

I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did.

I don't.”

― Veronica Roth, Divergent

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“We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books

we inherit from our parents, and we cherish the idea of passing those books on to our children. Indeed,

how many of us started reading with a beloved book that belonged to one of our parents? We force



worthy books on our friends, and we insist that they read them. We even feel a weird kinship for the

people we see on buses or airplanes reading our books, the books that we claim. If anyone tries to take

away our books—some oppressive government, some censor gone off the rails—we would defend them

with everything that we have. We know our tribespeople when we visit their homes because every wall

is lined with books. There are teetering piles of books beside the bed and on the floor; there are masses

of swollen paperbacks in the bathroom. Our books are us. They are our outboard memory banks and

they contain the moral, intellectual, and imaginative influences that make us the people we are today.”

― Cory Doctorow

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“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”

― Harold Bloom

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“I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I

find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into

a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling

there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding.”

― Donald Miller, To Own a Dragon: Reflections on Growing Up Without a Father


“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to

other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”

― Roberto Bolaño, 2666


“One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a

tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to

come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with

peach pits until they went home.”

― Jacqueline Kelly, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate



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“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson


“What better place to kill time than a library?”

― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale


“No two persons ever read the same book.”

― Edmund Wilson

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“there was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. they were her home when

she was somewhere strange. they were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever,

powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and

wide. her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored”

― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart


“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having

lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.”



― Marcel Proust

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“When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a

whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth

in a book, a real book.”

― Christopher Morley


“Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish

memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to makethem weapons for man's freedom.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”

― Mason Cooley


“You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.”

― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

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“It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run

wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand

to keep them down.”

― Agatha Christie, Clocks

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“There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on

the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart


“He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a

kid.”

― Kelley Armstrong, Stolen


“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber

plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Saturday

night and a row of shining yellow pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a

flower or some leaves or berries always in it and books . . . books . . . books. . . .”

― Betty Smith


“A story is alive, as you and I are. It is rounded by muscle and sinew. Rushed with blood. Layered with

skin, both rough and smooth. At its core lies soft marrow of hard, white bone. A story beats with the

heart of every person who has ever strained ears to listen. On the breath of the storyteller, it soars. Until

its images and deeds become so real you can see them in the air, shimmering like oases on the horizon

line. A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so

slowly it seems motionless, curled in upon itself like a snake in the sun. It can vanish like smoke before

the wind. Linger like perfume in the nose. Change with every telling, yet always remain the same.”

― Cameron Dokey

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“To read is to empower,

To empower is to write,

To write is to influence,

To influence is to change,



To change is to live".”

― Jane Evershed

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“Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.”

― Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Death in a Tenured Position

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