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“Reading is...” His brows knit together and then his forehead smoothed as the right words appeared to dawn on him. “It’s going somewhere without ever taking a train or ship, an unveiling of new, incredible worlds. It’s living a life you weren’t born into and a chance to see everything colored by someone else’s perspective. It’s learning without having to face consequences of failures, and how best to succeed.” He hesitated. “I think within all of us, there is a void, a gap waiting to be filled by something. For me, that something is books and all their proffered experiences.”
― Madeline Martin, The Last Bookshop in London

“It's going somewhere without ever taking a train or ship, an unveiling of new, incredible worlds. It's living a life you weren't born into and a chance to see everything colored by someone else's perspective. It's learning without having to face consequences of failures, and how best to succeed...I think within all of us, there is a void, a gap waiting to be filled by something. For me, that something is books and all their proffered experiences.”
― Madeline Martin, The Last Bookshop in London

“He gave her a little bow. “Good day, Miss Bennet.”
― Madeline Martin, The Last Bookshop in London

“The front displays varied from those that were artfully arranged to piles of books stacked in no particular order, all but blocking the interior. If nothing else, perhaps the latter didn’t require blackout curtains. After all, who needed three layers of fabric when one had stacks of books five deep?”
― Madeline Martin, The Last Bookshop in London

“She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She’d tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of expectation. But somehow, she always managed to say or do something outrageous—she’d accept a dare to climb a flagpole, or make a slightly risqué joke, or go riding in cars with boys—and suddenly she was “that awful O’Neill girl” all over again.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

“She joined a book group and actually read each selection, remembering that at several places in her life, books have been her refuge.”
― Susan Wiggs, Sugar and Salt

“Your life work is not simply to attract man or please anybody, but to mold yourselves into a grand and glorious womanhood.”
― Kirk Wallace Johnson, The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

“…remember that beauty works from within, it cannot be put on and off like a garment.”
― Kirk Wallace Johnson, The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

“When Couturier replied, Edwin felt as though he had a message from Michelangelo or da Vinci in his inbox.”
― Kirk Wallace Johnson, The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

“I read books, …Like, all the time.”
― Susan Wiggs, Sugar and Salt

“I will eat absolutely anything (as long as it’s not disgusting, a la McDonald’s) and in large quantities…I’m after all still a student, and a fairly starved one at that.”
― Kirk Wallace Johnson

“She read books that took her to faraway places. Books that let her live a different life. Books that made her see the world with new eyes.”
― Susan Wiggs, Sugar and Salt

“She was in the middle of reading The Book Thief about a girl in Nazi Germany surviving something horrific.”
― Susan Wiggs, Sugar and Salt

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“She loved reading books. While her mom was busy making sandwiches, she would curl up in a corner and read to keep herself company.”
― Susan Wiggs, Sugar and Salt

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Who would steal a bunch of dead birds?”
― Kirk Wallace Johnson, The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

“She read voraciously, devouring a dog-eared copy of The Handmaid’s Tale it one sleepless night.”
― Susan Wiggs, Sugar and Salt

“(For all the 007 references, though, the British press neglected to mention that Ian Fleming had found his spy’s name after stumbling across a copy of Birds of the West Indies, written by the American ornithologist James Bond.)”
― Kirk Wallace Johnson, The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

“You know what Winston Churchill famously said? ‘When you’re going through hell, keep going.”
― Susan Wiggs, Sugar and Salt

“But while Edwin skated, Darren Bennett was sentenced to ten months in prison for stealing two pounds of horn-shaped plaster.”
― Kirk Wallace Johnson, The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

“Where something is scarce, people are creative.”
― Kirk Wallace Johnson, The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

“A kid deserved to take pride and joy in his identity.”
― Susan Wiggs, Sugar and Salt

“And now here you are, your fate depending on Sacha Baron-Cohen’s cousin.”
― Kirk Wallace Johnson, The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

“Coffee? I make a mean decaf cappuccino.”
― Susan Wiggs, Sugar and Salt

“Part of me still wants to be in bed with my cat, Herri, whose purrs are the opposite of an alarm clock.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

“When someone dies, everything about them becomes past tense. Except for the grief. Grief stays in the present.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper's Daughter

“You know, Pauline, you can be a princess without a boy saying so”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

“New Normal, which is what I call what happens when your universe is shaken so badly you can never regain the same axis as before. But you try anyway.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper's Daughter

“Curiosity killed the cat. But satisfaction revived her.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter