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“Only 15 percent of us perform the life-affirming, sanity-bolstering, empathy-forming act of spending time inside somebody else’s brain.”
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“Shivering slightly, we all moved together to form a close circle and hug one another tight.
The four of us were the only family we had left. Tommy, who’d been living on boats longer than any of us, started mumbling an old sailor’s prayer: “Though Death waits off the bow, we’ll not answer to him now.”
I hoped he was right.
But I had a funny feeling that Death might not take no for an answer.”
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The four of us were the only family we had left. Tommy, who’d been living on boats longer than any of us, started mumbling an old sailor’s prayer: “Though Death waits off the bow, we’ll not answer to him now.”
I hoped he was right.
But I had a funny feeling that Death might not take no for an answer.”
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“Public libraries are a public good.”
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“Life is compared to a game of juggling five balls: Work, Family, Health, Friends, and Integrity. Find balance by understanding what each ball is made of:
Work is a rubber ball: If you drop it, it will bounce back.
Family, Health, Friends, and Integrity are glass balls: If you drop any of these, they will be scuffed, marked, damaged, or completely shattered.
Prioritize the glass balls over the rubber ball to maintain a healthy and balanced life.”
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Work is a rubber ball: If you drop it, it will bounce back.
Family, Health, Friends, and Integrity are glass balls: If you drop any of these, they will be scuffed, marked, damaged, or completely shattered.
Prioritize the glass balls over the rubber ball to maintain a healthy and balanced life.”
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“I love it when people walk through the front door, stop, and take a deep breath. "It smells so good in here," they'll say. It does. It smells like books, and it feels like home, and it's full of ideas and possibilities.”
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“Reading should never be a chore or a punishment.”
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“I know. And you hate Fang looking at those girls. But we’re still having fun, and Fang still loves you, and you’ll still save the world. Okay?”
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“The others had stopped and were watching me with alarm. Fang was probably ready to drag me to the funny farm.”
― The Angel Experiment
― The Angel Experiment
“... You will lose all hope. And that foul, rotting hopelessness, that abject feeling of pointlessness and futility, is the most defeating of all human experiences.”
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“Just because it's sunny today don't mean the shitstorm ain't comin'.”
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“I have no hesitation about not finishing a book. I could be three-fourths of the way through and if I’m feeling, This is not doing it, I’ll close it and go on to another book. And I feel confident enough as a reader that I can tell within the first fifty pages, sometimes even less, whether a book is going to engage me or not. So no, I don’t have to finish a book, because authors keep writing and publishers keep publishing...”
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“You are holding a book in your hands right now. Or maybe listening to one. If you live in America, you’re among only one in five who can read a book and are actually in the habit of reading books.”
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“Censorship is a violation of freedom of speech, and freedom of speech is a basic American right.”
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