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When the wind blows off the lake at this time of year, it feels like your face is being torn by ghosts. He’s walking along the other side of the street, pretending to have important things to do, convincing himself that no one who sees him
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“If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop â€� a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser â€� and steal the contents of books by reading them. I drank down 1984 while loitering in the 'O' section of the giant Heffers store in Cambridge. When I was full I carried the slopping vessel of my attention carefully out of the shop.”
― The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
― The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading

“I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.”
― The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
― The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”
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