“Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are.”
Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American academic
Variant: Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
“Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.”
— Chris Wooding, book Poison
Source: Poison
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