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“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
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“Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung...”
― How Reading Changed My Life
― How Reading Changed My Life
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
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“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
― How Reading Changed My Life
― How Reading Changed My Life
“How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transcending customs, strictures, time, mores, to arrive at a place that educates, amuses, and enthralls us? It is a miracle. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.”
― How Reading Changed My Life
― How Reading Changed My Life
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Maria’s 2025 Year in Books
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