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Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
“And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!”
― Where the Wild Things Are
― Where the Wild Things Are
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
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“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
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