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Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos

by Richard Panek

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Jan 14, 2026 12:53PM

“Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions.”
― Sara Nelson, So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

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“The best way to get even is to forget.”
― Debbie Macomber, Mrs. Miracle

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“I m not about to tell him that I am just like Anna and Emma, an adulteress. My books are my secret lovers, the friends I run to to get away from the daily drudgeries of life, to try out something new, and yes, to get away, for a few hours, from him. He doesn't need to know that my books are the affairs I don't have. ”
― Sara Nelson, So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

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