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“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work. ”
― A Million Little Pieces
― A Million Little Pieces
“We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
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