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"I don’t know that I fully understand what is happening in this book." — Sep 15, 2025 10:33AM
"I don’t know that I fully understand what is happening in this book." — Sep 15, 2025 10:33AM
“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”
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“It’s strange how hate and love can so quietly exist at the same time. They are moon phases, one silently growing until one day all that’s left is darkness.”
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
“Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“When you’re drowning and someone grabs your hand, you don’t ask them where they’re taking you.”
― Bat Eater
― Bat Eater
“Cora thinks about the Girl with a Pearl Earring, and the Mona Lisa, and all the beautiful women immortalized in oil paint, and wonders if they said cruel things too, if their words had mattered at all or just the roundness of their eyes and softness of their cheeks, if beautiful people are allowed to break your heart and get away with it.”
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
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