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“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Are you happy here?" I said at last.
He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History