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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Stories are magic, and that is why the first thing any dictator does is to ban the stories that do not agree with him.”
― James Renner, The Great Forgetting

“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me