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James Thurber
“Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Jesmyn Ward
“Home is about the earth. Whether the earth open up to you. Whether it pull you so close the space between you and it melt and y’all one and it beats like your heart. Same time. Where”
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

Jesmyn Ward
“Some days later, I understood what he was trying to say, that getting grown means learning how to work that current: learning when to hold fast, when to drop anchor, when to let it sweep you up.”
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward
Can't nothing bother me when I got my hands in the dirt, he said. Like I'm talking to God with my fingers.”
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

year in books
Lindsay...
746 books | 38 friends

Ellen O...
229 books | 30 friends

Christo...
233 books | 11 friends

Claire ...
297 books | 8 friends

Chris H...
71 books | 27 friends

Jess Craig
444 books | 4 friends

Tara Selig
103 books | 17 friends

Hannah ...
132 books | 7 friends

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