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“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

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― Neil Gaiman

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― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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“She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

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“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

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“I read; I travel; I become”
― Derek Walcott

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