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“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume
― Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.”
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“Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pass a stall, a shop, or even a bedroom-shelf without reading some title, and if they find themselves in an unfamiliar library, no host need trouble himself further about their entertainment. The putting of dispersed sets of volumes together, or the turning right way up of those which the dusting housemaid has left in an apoplectic condition, appeals to them as one of the lesser Works of Mercy. Happy in these employments, and in occasionally opening an eighteenth-century octavo, to see 'what it is all about,' and to conclude after five minutes that it deserves the seclusion it now enjoys, I had reached the middle of a wet August afternoon at Betton Court...
-the beginning of the story "A Neighbor's Landmark”
― A Warning to the Curious: Ghost Stories
-the beginning of the story "A Neighbor's Landmark”
― A Warning to the Curious: Ghost Stories
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