What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

Holly Black

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In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.

Eileen Favorite

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For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.

Eileen Favorite

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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Mark Twain

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A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

Benjamin Franklin

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Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

Gary D. Schmidt

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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages...

Rebecca Wells

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

Franz Kafka

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