Alessandra

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Alessandra’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Shadow & Flame (Rime Chronicles #2)

Shadow & Flame (Rime Chronicles #2) by Mindee Arnett

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NEVER BEFORE HAD CORWIN FULLY appreciated the magic of a library, and the magicians who wielded its power—librarians.

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Alessandra’s Quotes

“I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.”
― Jackson Pearce, Sisters Red

tags: libraries

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“For the most part, you don't hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone.”
― Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days

tags: goodbye-days, grief

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“Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.”
― Eva Ibbotson, A Company of Swans

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“Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.”
― Laura Bush

tags: children, education, learning, libraries, library, reading

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“What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists."

[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]”
― Archibald MacLeish

tags: books, knowledge, libraries, reading

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