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" Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world. —Virginia Woolf "
― Ellery Adams , The Secret, Book & Scone Society (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #1)
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" Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity. —Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers “What must I do, Mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?” “The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret.” —Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn "
― Ellery Adams , The Vanishing Type (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #5)