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We love Jane Austen because her characters, as sparkling as they are, are no better and no worse than us. They’re so eminently, so completely, human. I, for one, find it greatly consoling that she had us all figured out.”
“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― The Namesake
― The Namesake
“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
― Tuck Everlasting
― Tuck Everlasting
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.”
― A Separate Peace
― A Separate Peace
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