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doesn’t understand what it means to love books so passionately that you would die without them, that you would simply stop breathing, stop existing. It is quite beyond me, in fact, why she became a librarian in the first place.
shelves piled high with all the books the two of them treasured so much. He had taught her to love reading, one of the greatest gifts a parent could give a child, and in doing so, he had opened the world to her.
Inside, I breathe deeply as my eyes adjust to the dim lighting. It’s incredible how familiar the place feels, though I’ve never been here. Once you’ve fallen in love with books, their presence can make you feel at home anywhere, even in places where you shouldn’t belong.
As Eva says in The Book of Lost Names, those “who realize that books are magic� will have the brightest lives.�
