May 2012
65 posts
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“It’s been so long in the sea, the eyes and the nose have been erased, its...”
– Charles Simic, The World Doesn’t End
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“I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used...”
– David Levithan, Every You, Every Me
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“The accordion’s scratched yet shiny black exterior came back and forth as...”
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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“That’s the funny part about it. I love them all, and they don’t give...”
– Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
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“I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness.”
– John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
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“They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs.”
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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“The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your...”
– Charles Simic, The World Doesn’t End
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“I’d chosen them as friends because I liked them, and they liked me. Nobody...”
– Keith Gray, Ostrich Boys
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“Two questions I can’t really answer about fiction are (1) where it comes...”
– Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
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“You have endured pain here. If you can endure pain, then you can die. You can be...”
– John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
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“The dictionary said you were a sign indicating an omission; then it changed the...”
– Charles Simic, The World Doesn’t End
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“I stopped the call but she kept ringing back. There was no way I was going to...”
– Keith Gray, Ostrich Boys
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“There is a great difference, in fiction and in life, between knowing someone and...”
– Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
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“Words and words and words and words.”
– David Levithan, Every You, Every Me
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“We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us...”
– John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
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“Dr. Lustucru’s wife was not particularly talkative. But he beheaded her...”
– Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox
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“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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“The stories in books hate the stories in newspapers, David’s mother would...”
– John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
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“How much grief is a life?”
– Sam Hamill, Eyes Wide Open
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“See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there...”
– Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
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“‘Doubt nothing, believe everything,’ was my friend’s idea of...”
– Charles Simic, The World Doesn’t End
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“It’s always uncomfortable thinking that luck can be the fine line between...”
– Keith Gray, Ostrich Boys
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“There is a tendency to fit a tight and awkward carapace of definition over...”
– Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
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“Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?”
– Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
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“There is no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end,...”
– David Levithan, Every You, Every Me
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“Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out,”...”
– Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
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“The sea retreats; the sea swells.
We need the story that only
the going-forth...”
– Sam Hamill, Measured by Stone
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“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be a...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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“Stories were different, though: they came alive in the telling. Without a human...”
– John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
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“It was difficult to go unnoticed standing next to Kenny in his horrible orange...”
– Keith Gray, Ostrich Boys
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“Everything’s foreseeable. Everything has already been foreseen. What has...”
– Charles Simic, The World Doesn’t End
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“I’ve never even seen your house, and I have the funniest feeling that for...”
– Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
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“He supposed there were some people somewhere who had some control over their...”
– Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
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“Words like ‘sympathy,’ ‘empathy,’ and...”
– Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
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“I wish I didn’t have a heart that God wrote Sad on.”
– Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
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“Never since the beginning of our world has there been so little light. Our...”
– Charles Simic, The World Doesn’t End
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“I felt bad for him then. He was a real trier. If Kenny ever died it would...”
– Keith Gray, Ostrich Boys
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“In English class we studied a poem by Robert Frost, ‘The Oven Bird.’...”
– Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
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“Did a shadow fall across the moon or did the moon simply go out, extinguished as...”
– Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
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“He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors — and the...”
– Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
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“In a forest of question marks you were no bigger than an asterisk.”
– Charles Simic, The World Doesn’t End
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“Look at his face: not even his mother can love it.”
– Keith Gray, Ostrich Boys
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“The present is over quickly, you might say, and it is, but man, it goes like a...”
– Ann Brashares, My Name is Memory
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“But all we really know about what we are is what we do.”
– Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
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“If you have some liniment I’ll put it on my dignity.”
– Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
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“Rafael had to make it. Please, God, please. I was praying to a God I...”
– Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
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“Are Russian cannibals worse than the English? Of course. The English eat only...”
– Charles Simic, The World Doesn’t End
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“The pain in my feet reminded me with every step that he was never coming back....”
– Keith Gray, Ostrich Boys
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“We stood still while the world changed shape around us.”
– Ann Brashares, My Name is Memory
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“Over the years I have collected so many books that, in aggregate, they can...”
– Marilynne Robinson,When I Was a Child I Read Books