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“But right now I’m here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“In writing The Invention of Wings, I was inspired by the words of Professor Julius Lester, which I kept propped on my desk: “History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another’s pain in the heart our own.”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings
“In the checkered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the winepress. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.”
― Daniel Deronda
― Daniel Deronda
“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
― The Graveyard Book
― The Graveyard Book
“We residents sometimes pity you poor tourists not a little - handed about like a parcel of goods from Venice to Florence, from Florence to Rome, living herded together in pensions or hotels, quite unconscious of anything that is outside Baedeker, their one anxiety to get 'done' and 'through' and go somewhere else. The result is they mix up towns, rivers, palaces in one inextricable whirl.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
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