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“Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters – the saints and the sinners, real or imagined – reading shows you how to be a better human being.”
― The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
― The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees.”
― Parable of the Sower
― Parable of the Sower
“All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.”
― Parable of the Sower
― Parable of the Sower
“They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
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