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Ellie Botoman

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Ellie’s Quotes

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

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“I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

tags: biology, environmental-factors, promise, promises

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“There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

tags: apartment, beautiful-creatures, beautiful-darkness, closeness, distance, far, sitting, size, stars, world

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“Sometimes I miss you
the way someone drowning
remembers the air.”
― Tim Seibles

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“Tattoos, for example, are very hard to forget. I think there's something about the impermanence of life these days that makes it necessary to etch ink into our skins. It reminds us that we've been marked by the world, that we're still alive. That we'll never forget.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

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