

“If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the head, why bother reading it in the first place?.... A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
--Franz Kafka in a letter to Oskar Pollak dated January 27, 1904”
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--Franz Kafka in a letter to Oskar Pollak dated January 27, 1904”
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“Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are!”
― The Glass Menagerie
― The Glass Menagerie
“And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”
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“I loved her not for the way she danced with my angels, but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons”
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