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Born to Run

by Michael Morpurgo

bookshelves: owned, paperback, re-read, currently-reading, 2012, october, year-eight, november

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Oct 28, 2012 01:10AM

“We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.”
― Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful

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“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

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“It's what I'll be singing in the morning. It won't be God Save the Ruddy King or All Things bleeding Bright and Beautiful. It'll be Orange and Lemons for Big Joe, for all of us.”
― Michael Morpurgo

tags: sad-but-beautiful-war-book

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“Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.”
― Enid Blyton, Five on a Hike Together

tags: leaving, someone, something

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“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: freedom, self

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