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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Sunrise

by Téa Obreht (Goodreads Author)

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The New People

by Andrea Uptmor

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Allison’s Quotes

“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

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“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
― Mark Twain

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“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”
― George Carlin

tags: books, bookstores, self-help

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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

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