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“the same imagination he uses as a reader is necessary to understand real people also, and to be intimate with them.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“The reader and I thus mingled will constitute something living”
― Jaqueline Harpman

“Books are what save us. Books are what don't save us.”
― Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows