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“Books and ideas are like blood; they need to circulate, and they keep us alive.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us - the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream.”
― J.B. Priestley, Time And The Conways

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“There is nothing in this world but pain and the rare moments that exist in between.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom