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“...I told myself that, after all, life was like that for most of us - the small unpleasantness rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.”
― Barbara Pym, Excellent Women

“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Sometimes I like books more than people.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

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