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Emily Vander Ark

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That Hideous Strength (The Space Trilogy, #3)

by C.S. Lewis

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Little Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

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Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

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Emily’s Quotes

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom

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“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
― Joseph Joubert

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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

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“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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