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“Books bring colour to my simple life and if I have a book in my hands, it feels like I'm always connected with the world. Whether I'm bored, lonely, upset or depressed, books soothe me and everything feels all right again. What would I do without books?”

“Because I feel closer to people who've read the same book as me than to people I've known for years, I often recommend books to my friends.“

“I, who am always curious to know what a person is reading, especially if I'm meeting them for the first time, and while I may be too shy to ask, the thought will continue to linger in my mind even after I come home.“

“Indeed, if books disappeared, readers would exist no more. That means a part of me would disappear. I, who spend hours leafing through pages, annotating with a pencil, so completely absorbed that it's past midnight when I finally get up to turn off the lights.“

Author, Andrew Piper, says: “I can imagine a world without books. I cannot imagine one without reading?”

In a text titled A Letter to Borges, Susan Sontag responds to his sentiment by saying:
“Some people think of reading only as a kind of escape: an escape from the real' everyday world to an imaginary world, the world of books. Books are much more. They are a way of being fully human.”

“When everyone else is asking ‘What movie did you watch recently?' and 'What drama are you watching now?’ I want to ask, 'What book have you been reading?' I hope to make a space, however small, for books in our conversations. I want to open the latch in my heart when I'm with you.”

“The doorway to self-reflection that's hidden inside us opens, and we grow to become a person who understands introspection.”

“The question, ‘What have you been reading?' seems to have the power to open a latch in our hearts. The moment we welcome books into ourselves, were bravely opening the door to our hearts. We confess our loneliness, our weaknesses, uncertainties and worries as we open up about the values and worldviews that each of us holds close to our hearts.“

“And when such books touch something deep inside our hearts, it feels like we’re reading them afresh each day.”