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Dave Rattley

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Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

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Dave’s Quotes

“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

tags: adventure, danger, drama, emotional, emotions, family, fiction, literary, literary-fiction, loss

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“Her mouth was a gash of red, like the torn-open stomach of a sacrifice, bloody and oracular. Behind it her teeth shone sharp and white as bone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: description, poetic-prose

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“There's so much more to book than just reading”
― Maurice Sendak

tags: books

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“One man illumines you with his other sets in you his sorrow.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

tags: illumination, sorrow

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“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For