"There is something about words in expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner."
~Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
"Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes - characters even - caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you."
~Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island."
~Walt Disney
"Books are not merely lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
~Gilbert Highet
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