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"If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger; if you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep, because you had to get up so early; if you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures , whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless; if such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand...."
THIS! Isn't that so much of what books are to us? I love it!
THIS! Isn't that so much of what books are to us? I love it!