Let me find a way
Let me walk away
Through the Undertow
Please let me go
Let me walk away
Through the Undertow
Please let me go
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Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.
— Nora Ephron in I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman.
Source: brainpickings.org
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,” said Jojen. “The man who never reads lives only one.
— George R.R. Martin (A Dance With Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)), via Digitalyn
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Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch; especially on a day in January, when the wind is blowing, the ice is treacherous, and the books inside seem to gather together in colorful warmth. It’s hard to leave a bookstore any day of the year, though, because a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.
— Jane Smiley (via reading-is-fun)
Source: reading-is-fun
