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Eva Kenieva

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Eva’s Notes & Highlights

Echoes by Laura Tisdall

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It’s stupid; teachers watch the kids who choose the back.

A Year and a Day in Old Theradane

by Scott Lynch

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Eva’s Quotes

“Doom awaits those that write vampire-romances with one-dimensional characters.”
― Timothy Hickson, On Writing and Worldbuilding, Volume I

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“I want to live a lot of different lives, not just one. I wish I could have lived forever, in every age and every country, seen everything and done everything and felt everything." p. 193”
― Kathleen Winsor, Star Money

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“Such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art it was that withheld me, and it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon me to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

tags: suicide

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“Some men, certainly, have used the beauty myth abusively against women, the way some men use their fists; but there is a strong consciousness among both sexes that the real agents enforcing the myth today are not men as individual lovers or husbands, but institutions, that depend on male dominance.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

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“Do you know what this reminds me of--every time I see it happen? It's like a kids' game where the ones who are successful stand in a circle, grabbing money with one hand and passing it with the other. While everyone else stands around on the outside, watching them anxiously and trying to figure a way to get into the circle so they can play too.”
― Kathleen Winsor, Star Money

tags: money

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