Tuesday, 14 May 2019

The Only Story in the Bookshop

All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

"When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic." - Julian Barnes


 "Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced." - Aldous Huxley

















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