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“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
― A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books
― A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“I read like the flame reads the wood.”
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“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”
― Aspects of the Novel
― Aspects of the Novel
“I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.”
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
― The Collected Dorothy Parker
Allison’s 2025 Year in Books
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