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title: "2 Closed Book Quotes By Jenny Hubbard"
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> [“Reading, she tells me, is what she does best. She loves it because it uses the whole of her, the right and the left, the hemispheres of reason and imagination. She discovered as a child that a closed book is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hubbard/reading-she-tells-me-is-what-she-does-best-she-loves-it-because-it/)

[Jenny Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hubbard/)

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> [“a closed book is a darkness anyone can enter, not a cary darkness like a basement or a storm, but a comforting one that wrapped her up neatly inside a world she could control.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hubbard/a-closed-book-is-a-darkness-anyone-can-enter-not-a-cary-darkness-like/)

[Jenny Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hubbard/)

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## More by Jenny Hubbard

> [“It is hard to be true to yourself because it is hard to be yourself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hubbard/it-is-hard-to-be-true-to-yourself-because-it-is-hard-to-be-yourself/)

[Jenny Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hubbard/)

> [“What I carry in my backpack down to the river, I carry not knowing that in less than an hour Thomas Broughton will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hubbard/what-i-carry-in-my-backpack-down-to-the-river-i-carry-not-knowing/)

[Jenny Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hubbard/)

> [“Until it has scared you with its endlessness, sky is just sky.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hubbard/until-it-has-scared-you-with-its-endlessness-sky-is-just-sky/)

[Jenny Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hubbard/)

> [“Honor is truth. Truth has many meanings, but it first means that you have to be true to yourself. It is hard to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hubbard/honor-is-truth-truth-has-many-meanings-but-it-first-means-that-you/)

[Jenny Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hubbard/)

> [“If I were good the way my dad is good, then I wouldn't be filling up these pages. They would be blank, the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hubbard/if-i-were-good-the-way-my-dad-is-good-then-i-wouldn-t-be-filling-up/)

[Jenny Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hubbard/)

> [“Read to your heart's content. Though if you are a reader, the heart is never content.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hubbard/read-to-your-heart-s-content-though-if-you-are-a-reader-the-heart-is/)

[Jenny Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hubbard/)

> [“Reading, she tells me, is what she does best. She loves it because it uses the whole of her, the right and the left,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hubbard/reading-she-tells-me-is-what-she-does-best-she-loves-it-because-it/)

[Jenny Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hubbard/)

> [“Even English-teacher bookworms need friends and bars.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hubbard/even-english-teacher-bookworms-need-friends-and-bars/)

[Jenny Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hubbard/)

> [“So many options that they're almost overwhelming. Which is why it is sometimes so easy to grab the cliche, to reach out to what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hubbard/so-many-options-that-they-re-almost-overwhelming-which-is-why-it-is/)

[Jenny Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hubbard/)

> [“She touches her wrist where her watch used to be, her fingers lost without time to hold on to.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hubbard/she-touches-her-wrist-where-her-watch-used-to-be-her-fingers-lost/)

[Jenny Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hubbard/)

> [“Seed-- The boy I loved/had the veins of the ancient./He was eighteen, but also/a hundred and eighty,/Biblical and stubborn/as stone lodged/in the earth./ When…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hubbard/seed-the-boy-i-loved-had-the-veins-of-the-ancient-he-was-eighteen-but/)

[Jenny Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hubbard/)

> [“You have to stop and freeze the moment," he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by repeating it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hubbard/you-have-to-stop-and-freeze-the-moment-he-told-me-i-had-told-her-you/)

[Jenny Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hubbard/)

> [“Anthology-- What binds together the moments/of earthly grace? What gathers up/the last white daisy in an amber field;/ a baby bird hatching from a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hubbard/anthology-what-binds-together-the-moments-of-earthly-grace-what/)

[Jenny Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hubbard/)

> [“It does not have to define who Emily is, was, or will be.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hubbard/it-does-not-have-to-define-who-emily-is-was-or-will-be/)

[Jenny Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hubbard/)

> [“Do you have any idea how hard a story is to write? My brain is jumpy, and my heart doesn't know where to live.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hubbard/do-you-have-any-idea-how-hard-a-story-is-to-write-my-brain-is-jumpy/)

[Jenny Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hubbard/)

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