The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

—Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits
art by Justyna Dura

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If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”

—E.B. White
Charlotte's Web
Illustration by Garth Williams

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There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen.

Maurice Sendak
Where the Wild Things Are

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All is black shadow but the lucid line
Marked by the light surf on the level sand,
Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine
Like wandering fairy fires, that oft on land
Misled the pilgrim …

Charlotte Smith (1749–1806)
art by Paul Delaroche

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