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December 1, 2022 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

A grown woman is like a coyote—she can get by on very little. Men are more like house cats. Leave them alone for too long and they’ll die of sadness.

—Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

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August 20, 2022 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

—Veronica Roth, Insurgent

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July 11, 2022July 11, 2022 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

We are survivors, of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.

—Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

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June 19, 2022 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.

—V. E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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May 21, 2022August 20, 2022 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Words never mean what what we want them to mean. If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood.

—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

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April 8, 2022 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

—Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

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February 25, 2022 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.

—Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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February 6, 2022 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

It’s good to be foolish from time to time. It keeps your spirit young.

—Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

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January 6, 2022 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

We sleep when we don’t love.

—Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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August 27, 2021August 27, 2021 by Anne ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

She knows that killing a person does almost-invisible things to you; it leaves you arm-linked with death, your head tilted just a degree that way, so that for the rest of your life your shadows mix together.

—Tana French, The Secret Place

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