“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” – W. Somerset Maugham

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.” – Louis L’Amour

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” – Mary Wortley Montagu

“It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book… from the reading of ‘good books’ there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

“You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.” – John Waters

“Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else’s story, the delicious ache of a last page.” – Naomi Shihab Nye

“We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.” – Henry Miller

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.” – Jane Austen

“The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream. Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination – creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words.” – Chef Eric Ripert

“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them; to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!” – Thomas Babington Macaulay

“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them; to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!” – Thomas Babington Macaulay

“Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.”―Gloria Steinem

“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.” – Louisa May Alcott

“What a blessing it is to love books.” – Elizabeth von Arnim

“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.” – Elbert Hubbard

“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.” – Gaston Bachelard

“I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.” – Benedict Cumberbatch

“We are all unreliable narrators–all of us.”–Ruth Ware

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