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“I don't believe books are the cure to everything, necessarily, but it's like--when you're feeling unwell, and you receive a diagnosis, and you're so relieved because now you realize that it wasn't all in your head, that there's a name for what you're experiencing. On a bad day, books offer a language for your pain, and on a good day, books remind you just how precious your life is.”
― Ann Liang, Never Thought I'd End Up Here

“There was a little gap, a thrilling one, between the narrator and the author, between what was true and what couldn't be, a crucial space for a young reader, surrounded everywhere by the usual restrictions, to sit free and think what I liked.”
― Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?

“Maybe this is what books do, she thinks, whether stories real or imagined or poems compiled in one place for people to flick through in search of what they need. They offer something universal but allow you to find your own meaning among the words. They are for everyone and yet they are for you too.”
― Libby Page, This Book Made Me Think of You

“I know that memories alter the more you revisit them, and I want mine to re main pristine. I want to hold that memory still, as if it were stuck in a snow globe, protected and unchanged even as the world swirls around it.”
― Geraldine DeRuiter, If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury