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You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.


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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.



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Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.



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I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.



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Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?



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If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.



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Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.





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