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I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

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Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be s...more

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Books were safer than other people anyway.

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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

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Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.'I said, ...more

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There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the...more

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Oh, monsters are scared', said Lettie. 'And as for grown-ups...' She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, 'I'm going to tell...more

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. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.

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I am old now, or at least, I am no longer young, and everything I see reminds me of something else I’ve seen, such that I see nothing for the first ti...more

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Libraries are about Freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finish...more

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Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit,...more

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No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.

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Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking.

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The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other peopl...more

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The lovelorn came, too. The alone. The lunatics-they were brought here, sometimes. Got their name from the moon, it was only fair the moon had a chanc...more