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“Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!”
― Christopher Marlowe

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda