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“A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.”

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“Here, in the garden at night, it is another world, strange and yet friendly and familiar, never frightening. There is such quietness, such sweetness,…

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“We make our own destiny.”

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Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one…

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“You don't have to pay its rent just because it is a book.”

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Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.

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“...the past still held secrets, the past threw its shadows...”

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“I go downstairs and the books blink at me from the shelves. Or stare. In a trick of the light, a row of them…

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“They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret dungeons, dank…

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