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"A half-read book is a half-finished love affair."

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books"

"V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with..."

"It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and ..."

"I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all wri..."

"There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it."

"My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism."

"Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you."

"You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the 'parlor fa..."

"She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about t..."