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“Belle hesitated. “What is this place?” she asked.
“A bit of magic, like all good books,” the man replied. “An escape. A place where you can leave cares and worries behind.” He smiled. “At least for a chapter or two.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book