Books are like flypaper, memories cling to rinted pages better than anything else.
("Inkheart")
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She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn't taste bad, but she was still unhappy.Cornelia Funke
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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.
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Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
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The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.
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