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“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living