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Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)

by Stephen Fry

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Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It

by Gabriel Wyner

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Young Mungo

by Douglas Stuart (Goodreads Author)

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Yas’s Quotes

“To be well now is to learn to accept whatever body and mind I currently have.”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

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“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”
― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

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“You must learn to live on fault lines.”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

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“EVERYONE WHO IS born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick,” Susan Sontag wrote in Illness as Metaphor. “Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

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“He has a theory: When we travel, we actually take three trips. There’s the first trip of preparation and anticipation, packing and daydreaming. There’s the trip you’re actually on. And then, there’s the trip you remember. “The key is to try to keep all three as separate as possible,” he says. “The key is to be present wherever you are right now.” This advice, more than any, stays with me.”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

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