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“I remember the first year after my second child was born, what I can remember of it at all, as a year of disarray, of overturned glasses of milk, of toys on the floor, of hours from sunrise to sunset that were horribly busy but filled with what, at the end of the day, seemed like absolutely nothing at all. What saved my sanity were books. What saved my sanity was disappearing, if only for fifteen minutes before I inevitably began to nod off in bed...and as it was for me when I was young and surrounded by siblings, as it is today when I am surrounded by children, reading continues to provide an escape from a crowded house into an imaginary room of one's own.”
― How Reading Changed My Life
― How Reading Changed My Life
“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.”
― A Short Guide to a Happy Life
― A Short Guide to a Happy Life
“those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...”
― How Reading Changed My Life
― How Reading Changed My Life
“And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.”
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“The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of the three on them sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4, and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in a hurry to get on to the next things: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.”
― Loud and Clear
― Loud and Clear
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