"Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives……" — Michael Chabon
"Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to feel, after we have finished and fallen in love with the book, like the workings of a secret purpose. Of all the enchantments of beloved books the most mysterious-the most phantasmal-is the way they always seem to come our way precisely when we need them."
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Michael Chabon
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127 Quotes by Michael Chabon
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So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
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