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“bookshops are
time machines
spaceships
story-makers
secret-keepers
dragon-tamers
dream-catchers
fact-finders
& safe places.

(this book is for those who know this to be true)”
― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
― Colette

“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”
― Jane Green, The Beach House

“Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure…”
― Patricia Polacco

“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”
― Reinaldo Arenas

“Does love end when a relationship ends? Or does a relationship end because love has ended?
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When you had me, you never needed me. Now when you can’t have me, you shouldn't need me.”
― Novoneel Chakraborty, Forget Me Not, Stranger

“Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.”
― Primo Levi, The Periodic Table