She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

Shannon Hale
She closed the book and put her cheek against it....
She closed the book and put her cheek against it....
She closed the book and put her cheek against it....
She closed the book and put her cheek against it....
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She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds. She had read the book so many times that she could recite every word by heart. Every word was imprinted in her mind like an indelible pattern.

Sometimes she would look at the book and feel so lonely. She would think to herself: “That was me. If I had not met him, if I had not fallen in love with him, if I had not left him…”

Source: The Goose Girl

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