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"Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood.
Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.
~ John Green (author) ~
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Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.
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"Human existence is temporary and all the knowledge of the universe we acquire will in time be forgotten because there will be no humans left to benefi...
"Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.
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"If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like aut...
"In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to c...
"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious ba...
"That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told....
"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.
"He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.
"I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the...