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Lake Effect

by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 30, 2026 05:48PM

“Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung...”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

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“All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.”
― Anna Quindlen

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“those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

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“Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.”
― Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life

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“And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.”
― Anna Quindlen

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