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Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About

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The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw

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When I hold one of my mother’s books I remember her; I touch the same page she touched, I read the same words she read. Books collected over many years become part of the family. They have been loved, read and re-read, and have often ...more

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My mother only ever read the entire series of Pan Book of Horror Series, so I guess the quote wouldn't quite work for me. (Although I am a bookseller).

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“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Семейное счастие

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“I think that before he turned and walked away from me I said that I was sorry. In this life there are those that apologise and those that do not. I am a person who says sorry if a passer-by stands on my foot.”
― Barbara Trapido, Brother of the More Famous Jack

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