books became the greatest purveyors of truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Anna QuindlenPart of the great wonder of reading is that it has the ability to make human beings feel more connected to one another, which is a great good, if not from a pedagogical point of view, at least from a psychological one.
Anna QuindlenTag: reading
There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.
Anna QuindlenJust remember that sometimes you drift into things, and then you can't get out of them. Not to decide is to decide.
Anna QuindlenTag: life-lessons
The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility.
Anna QuindlenTag: youth possibility
She had filled her days mourning that shadow life, and it had no more meaning than the chattering of monkeys. Instead, these last few weeks, she had seen what might have been had she not felt perpetually done out of something better.
Anna QuindlenTag: pondering the-meaning-of-life
Of those of us who comprise the real clan of the book, who read not to judge the reading of others but to take the measure of ourselves. Of those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers. The silence about this was odd, both because there are so many of us and because we are what the world of books is really about. We are the people who once waited for the newest installment of Dickens's latest novel and who kept battered copies of Catcher in the Rye in our back pockets and backpacks. We are the ones who saw to it that Pride and Prejudice never went out of print.
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