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“I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”
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“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
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“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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“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
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“Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare’s kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.”
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Alyssa’s 2025 Year in Books
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