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Sarah Rees Brennan
“Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.”
Sarah Rees Brennan

Albert Camus
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus

“In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.”
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.”
James Goldsmith

“I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.”
Bill Bryson

188127 UIC Library General Book Club — 51 members — last activity Nov 19, 2025 11:36AM
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