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J.K. Rowling
“No story lives unless someone wants to listen. The stories we love best do live in us forever. So whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”
J.K. Rowling

Katherine Dunn
“Like colors or a spring tree against that kind ofblue sky that pulls your heart out through your eyes. Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.”
Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

Robyn Arianrhod
“I understand my parents quite well. They think of a wife as a man’s luxury, which he can afford only when he is making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of this view of the relationship between man and wife, because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a lifelong contract from the man because of her more favourable social rank . . . Which”
Robyn Arianrhod, Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²

Lawrence Hill
“She asked why I was so black. I asked why she was so white. She said she was born that way. Same here, I replied.”
Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name

Sherman Kennon
“A lie is still a lie
even if it’s disguised
as the truth.”
Sherman Kennon, Chase The Wind: A Book Of Poetry

year in books
Sharron...
86 books | 32 friends

Mayme K...
98 books | 28 friends

Maira B...
265 books | 11 friends

Jeffrey...
722 books | 52 friends

Melvin ...
36 books | 23 friends

Angele ...
0 books | 20 friends


The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt BrechtAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueNorth and South by Elizabeth GaskellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodVampire Academy by Richelle Mead
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