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“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake