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Electric Arches

by Eve L. Ewing (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 19, 2018 07:12AM

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Mind Platter

by Najwa Zebian (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 19, 2018 06:54AM

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Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems

by Ntozake Shange

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Alex’s Quotes

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity

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“By contrast, I feel rather calm, as if I have swallowed the eye of the storm.”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Distant Marvels

tags: calm, storm

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“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

tags: epitaph, first-sentence, great-first-lines, laughter, literary, merriment, opening-lines

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“Then, putting his palm on top of my head, like a warm hat, he whispered, "Pay attention. Be a person for whom love is not lost.”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Distant Marvels

tags: lost, love, warmth

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“Perhaps she is right, that there is no reason to suffering, no fair dealing when it comes to meting out bliss and pain. There are just choices, and the echoes of those choices.”
― Chantel Acevedo, The Distant Marvels

tags: bliss, choices, consequences, fairness, pain, suffering

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