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“That's one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we can all talk about when we don't want to talk about ourselves.”
― Will Schwalbe

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

“...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“Life takes on the meaning that you give it.”
― Liz Murray

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Scars are just another kind of memory.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“If we don't go mad once in a while, there's no hope.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

“Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.”
― Christopher Paolini

“At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob

“One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”
― Doris Lessing

“Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.”
― Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree

“It is not true we have only one life to love, if we can read, we can live as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”
― S.I. Hayakawa

“I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both.”
― Zoë Marriott