

“She was overwhelmed with a premonition. Deja vu but from the future, looking back to this moment looking forward.”
― Black Fire
― Black Fire

“Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a bell-tower outside his La Jolla, California, house. Geisel was a much more quiet man than his jocular rhymes suggest. He rarely ventured out in public to meet his young readership, fretting that kids would expect a merry, outspoken, Cat in the Hat–like figure, and would be disappointed with his reserved personality. “In mass, [children] terrify me,” he admitted.”
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?”
(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
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(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
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“You may ask yourself, Well, how did I get here?”
― Minecraft: The Island: An Official Minecraft Novel
― Minecraft: The Island: An Official Minecraft Novel

“A woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself”
― The House of Mirth
― The House of Mirth
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