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Anthony Doerr
“But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr
“A text—a book—is a resting place for the memories of people who have lived before. A way for the memory to stay fixed after the soul has traveled on.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

Walter Tevis
“It is foolish to run the risk of going mad for vanity’s sake.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

Walter Tevis
“is foolish to run the risk of going mad for vanity’s sake.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

Alice Hoffman
“Who can you trust if not your sister? Who knows your story better than she?”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

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