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I’m trying not to wake up Jeff with my sobbing. Gaw! This book is hitting me right in the heart! 💔

“NEVER BEFORE HAD I FELT TRAPPED, SEDUCED, AND CAUGHT UP in a story, the way I did with that book. Until then, reading was just a duty, a sort of fine one had to pay teachers and tutors without quite knowing why. I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language.”

“..few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return…”