“Great passions grow into monsters in the dark of the mind; but if you share them with loving friends they remain human, they can be endured.”
― Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
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Feel like we need to talk about the racism within bibliophile communities, the obsession with performing the acts of loving to read and loving books, the consumerism that has infiltrated these circles...
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“I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.”
― The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain.
“Well, everybody does it that way, Huck."
"Tom, I am not everybody.”
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Nobody understands the bond between a girl and the mediocre book she read when she was 13 years old.
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Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
[originally published 1929]
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I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.
-Sylvia Plath
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