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“Stories matter, Alice. When you live long enough, they're all you have.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“A late-comer to school, I had uncritically accepted all its standards. I was a conformist: it never occurred to me that because I suffered there was something wrong with the system, or with the human heart.”
― The Go- Between.
― The Go- Between.
“Within every human being is the power to see the world as it is and still be driven to destroy it.”
― The Atlas Complex
― The Atlas Complex
“To read is to see things from someone else's perspective, and that naturally leads you to stop and look out for other people, rather than chase after success in the rat race. If more people read, I think the world would become a better place.”
― Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
― Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
“It's so easy to fall into the assumption that anything someone else gains is something you lose. To think of success as some lavish party with only a limited number of invites. To convince yourself that if you could only make it to a certain point in the distance, you'll finally find a place to rest. To feel like there's always more than you can do. But I mean, look what's being done to us - to our self-esteem, to our pride, to our bodies. We're exhausted and on the verge of breaking down at any second and... somehow we're expected to just keep going.”
― I Am Not Jessica Chen
― I Am Not Jessica Chen
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