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“He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women. He never slept without a book.”
RICHARD FLANAGAN, THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH: A NOVEL |
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“Sometimes I feel alone. Some days are long and hard. But when I look out into this world, I am struck by the impossible beauty of it all. Those billions of magnificent accidents that led us to where we are today, that led us to paper planes and nautilus shells and the tiny, crooked smiles of children. When I think about the small perfections of the world, I have faith that my time will come. I have faith that someday, a warm light will flood over me and I will find peace.”
AVERY MONSEN, ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD |
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“The best books, they don’t talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you’d always thought about, but that you didn’t think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you’re a little bit less alone in the world. You’re part of this cosmic community of people who’ve thought about this thing, whatever it happens to be.”
TOMMY WALLACH, WE ALL LOOKED UP |
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“Being interesting isn’t important. But being happy is.”
HOLLY BOURNE, THE MANIFESTO ON HOW TO BE INTERESTING |
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“People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.”
NANCY FARMER, THE HOUSE OF THE SCORPION |
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“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
ORHAN PAMUK, MY NAME IS RED |
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“Every day is filled with impossibility, until you have chosen to see the possible. Once you make the shift to see, life is a less frightening journey.”
TIFFANY DAUNE, CORAL & BONE |
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“Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.”
SIMON VAN BOOY, EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL BEGAN AFTER |
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“Open your eyes, and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
ANTHONY DOERR, ALL THE LIGHT YOU CANNOT SEE |
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Love is what you give and love is what you want and love is how you wait, but it doesn’t save you.”
BETH KEPHART, GOING OVER |
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“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
SHERMAN ALEXIE, THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN |
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“Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them.”
CHARLES BUKOWSKI, HOT WATER MUSIC |
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“These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It’s probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.”
LIBBA BRAY, GOING BOVINE |
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“It’s amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.”
COLLEEN HOOVER, CONFESS |
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“There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person’s life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn’t take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn’t led you better.”
BRANDON SANDERSON, THE EMPEROR’S SOUL |
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“If you don’t understand, ask questions. If you’re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It’s easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here’s to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.”
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE, AMERICANAH |
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“It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.”
ABIGAIL TARTTELIN, GOLDEN BOY |
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“Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as why’s, you can love those parts too, and it’s a love at once more complicated and more complete.”
ALLY CONDIE, CROSSED |
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Post time 16-1-2019 07:53 PM
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