"Thank God for anyone who'll fight for the right to sit down with a good book - and then, the right to sit down with some good friends and that good book." (Amy Smith)
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” (Jane Austen)
Austen defends novels and reading:
“And what are you reading, Miss – ?”
“Oh! It is only a novel!” replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame.
“It is...only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.”
"She hauled the words in and breathed them out." (Zusak 303)
"Books and pages and a happy place." (Zusak 413)
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