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“All we have is now, this moment. If you live in the future, you’ll miss things, right here, right now, and you’ll regret it later.”
― Jessica Therrien, Oppression

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“Because I wondered what it's like to be in love,' she said. 'I thought you might have been. I read about it in books, of course, but I just wonder what it's like.'
'Like butterflies and rainbows, I think,' I say. 'And feeling crazy and exhilarated and high, and sometimes terrible and sad.But mostly feeling like you and the person you love are part of your own little universe that just the two of you have made, and everyone else doesn't really matter. I think it's probably like that.”
― Rowan Coleman, We Are All Made of Stars

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons