"That's what reading was for my mother, and……" — Ramona Koval
"That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination."
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Ramona Koval
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11 Quotes by Ramona Koval
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We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we…
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Can we really be friends with those who don't love the books that we do? Of course we can, but…
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But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading)…
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That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting…
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I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind…
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It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different…
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Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us…
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True browsing means that we discover shelves and subjects that we could not have anticipated when we started. And the…
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I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed…
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Not only does art imitate life but life imitates art. Perhaps we not only learn about life from stories, perhaps…
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