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Eye of the soul
And we have snow. It's not much, but the air smells of cold. You can feel the Christmas spirit. I can't wait to bake gingerbread cookies and decorate our tiny Xmas tree.I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that’s way more interesting that yours will ever be.
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
Frederick Douglass (via prettybooks)
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (via prettybooks)
A library is infinity under a roof.
Gail Carson Levine (via prettybooks)
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.
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Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells, and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower, both strange and familiar.
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1 year ago on August 29, 2011 at 03:18am with 5,920 notes
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Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too, that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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1 year ago on August 12, 2011 at 08:50am with 985 notes
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