"Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that find its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many...
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"Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that find its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn of forget - we will return." - Carlos Ruiz Zafon "The Shadow of the Wind"
"Books can't have smells. [...] Books can't have sounds. [...] Books can't have light.
If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers, who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can't be in books.
The book needs you." - Gary Paulsen "The Winter Room"
“In my body, where the shame gland should be, there’s a 2nd awesome gland. True story.” -Barney Stinson
"But as for me, it is good to be near God." -Psalm 73:28
"...I have engraved you on the palms of My hands..." -Isaiah 49:16
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