Elysa

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Elysa’s Notes & Highlights

Have We Met? by Camille Baker

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ridiculous to buy into a system that defines some jobs as failures. In truth, every job needs to be done by someone. It’s the system that’s the failure—one that places the most respect in jobs that don’t truly need to be done.

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Elysa’s Quotes

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

tags: on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart

3260 likes

“I love you. You are the object of my affection and the object of my sentence.”
― Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

tags: grammar, humor

28 likes

“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.”
― Baltasar Gracián

tags: description, grammar, speech, spelling, synonyms, vocabulary, writing

161 likes

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: the-hunger-games

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“And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

tags: adventure, grammar, grammar-humor, humor, humour, science-fiction, space-travel, star-trek-references

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