“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
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“The "to read' list is a place where most good books go to die...”
― I Will Praise You in the Storm: The Story of Stephen and Holly Deaubé, a Journey of Faith
― I Will Praise You in the Storm: The Story of Stephen and Holly Deaubé, a Journey of Faith
“I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.”
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“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
― Inkspell
― Inkspell
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