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“I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words were straightforward and honest, where there was clearly delineated good and evil, where I found girls who were strong and smart and creative and foolish enough to fight dragons, to run away from home to live in museums, to become child spies, to make new friends and build secret gardens.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir

“A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading.”
― Karen Karbo, How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons On The Art Of Living

“Twitter," said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

“But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”
― Anthony Marra , A Constellation of Vital Phenomena