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“I would rather be dead than not read”
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“Sorry I gave you a fright." Howl seemed more used to holding babies than Sophie was. He rocked Morgan soothingly and stared at him. Morgan stared, rather balefullt, back. "My word, he's ugly" Howl said. "Chip off the old block" "Howl!" said Sophie. But she did not sound angry.”
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“Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries.”
― Ink and Bone
― Ink and Bone
“Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose
“Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.”
― The Blue Octavo Notebooks
― The Blue Octavo Notebooks
Alyce’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alyce’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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