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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.”
― Ann M. Martin

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”
― Julia Child

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town