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“What are you reading? isn’t a simple question when asked with genuine curiosity; it’s really a way of asking, Who are you now and who are you becoming?”

Book:Books for Living

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Books for Living

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Will Schwalbe

Will Schwalbe is an American author known for his work 'Dear I Found You', which explores themes of family and the meaning of life. more

“Far beneath the surface of the earth, hidden from the sun and the moon, upon the shores of the Starless Sea, there is a labyrinthine collection of tunnels and rooms filled with stories. Stories written in books and sealed in jars and painted on walls. Odes inscribed onto skin and pressed into rose petals. Tales laid in tiles upon the floors, bits of plot worn away by passing feet. Legends carved in crystal and hung from chandeliers. Stories catalogued and cared for and revered. Old stories preserved while new stories spring up around them.”

Books The Starless Sea

Book:The Starless Sea

Source: The Starless Sea

“We have to report this." Kai sighed deeply in relief. "I was afraid you were going to say that we had to investigate it ourselves." "Don't be ridiculous," Irene said briskly. "We may collect fiction, but we are not required to imitate the stupider parts of it.”

Books Mysteries Investigations

Book:The Invisible Library

Source: The Invisible Library

“Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?”

Stories Reading Books Tragedies

Book:Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Do not wallow in self-pity if you want victory.”

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Book:A Manual for Victory

Source: A Manual for Victory

“Books were her salvation. As a child, she’d had a shelf of childhood favorites that she loved enough to read over and over again. But after, during the hospital stay and the long voyage and the cold days in Idlewild’s dreary hallways, books became more than mere stories. They were her lifeline, the pages as essential to her as breathing.”

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Book:The Broken Girls

Source: The Broken Girls

“There's something reassuring in books and stories older than you are. Still talked about long after they've been written and long after their writers die. When the world around you is on fire, there's a certain kind of comfort in that.”

Stories Books Comfort Classics

Book:She Gets the Girl

Source: She Gets the Girl

“It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.”

Books Book Quotes Susan Sontag Regarding The Pain Of Others

Book:Regarding the Pain of Others

Source: Regarding the Pain of Others

“a bookstore is a place densely populated with tens of thousands of authors, dead or living, residing side by side. But books are quiet. They remain dead silent until somebody flips open a page. Only then so they spill out their stories, calmly and thoroughly, just enough at a time for me to handle.”

Stories Reading Books Books About Books Bookstore

Book:Almond

Source: Almond

“No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected, what is promised, what is allowed. One may be overcome by horror--at the cluster or the vastness, the stillness, the mocking reminder of everything one doesn't know, the surveillance--and some of that overwhelming feeling may cling on, even after the rituals and conventions are learned, the geography mapped, and the natives found friendly.”

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Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.”

Reading Books Travel Library Public Library Hurry Hour Jules Verne Professor Hardwigg

Book:Journey to the Center of the Earth

Source: Journey to the Center of the Earth

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