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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” Dr. Suess

“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.” Anna Quindlen

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” Confucious

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” James Baldwin

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” Joyce Carol Oates

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.” Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though” J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” Charles William Eliot

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“We read to know that we are not alone.” C.S. Lewis

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.” Margaret Walker

“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.” W.H. Auden

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.” Marcel Proust