“The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.”
― A Little Princess
― A Little Princess
“Writing is an escape from life reading is living a different life.”
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“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― The Books in My Life
― The Books in My Life
“I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.”
― Hopeless
― Hopeless
“It is very dangerous to get caught without something to read.”
― Last Night at the Ritz
― Last Night at the Ritz
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