“We read to know we're not alone.”
William Nicholson movie Shadowlands
Variant: We read to know that we are not alone.
Source: Shadowlands (1993)
“The words you can't find, you borrow.
We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone.”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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