“But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workaday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
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“Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.”
“God, I don't love much but I love words.”
“You can't ever have my books.”
“How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren't just things but treasured friends? Companions?”
“To live a life of victory and liberty, you need the wisdom of the Almighty.”
“Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.”