Andrew RilstoneBooks–all books–are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them. Tying them down too much robs of them of the magic.
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We can often feel so much love for our books that we want them to stay with us forever. We want them to be familiar and easy to call upon when we need them most. But, as time goes on, these beloved books become less and less familiar. They lose their magic. They stop whispering the words that once inspired us.
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