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“With a book he was regardless of time.”
― Jane Austen

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“I get locked into a cycle of not speaking. It’s like every time I think of something awesome to say, I rehearse it in my head so many times, I forget whether I’ve said it out loud yet. And I think it goes without saying that awesome one-liners are decidedly less awesome when you repeat them by accident. Better not to risk it.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly