“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
― Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
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“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
“The world was hers for the reading.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
― Inkspell
― Inkspell
Abigail Hills’s 2025 Year in Books
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