"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Books were safer than other people anyway.
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"We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.
"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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". . . 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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"No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.