“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
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“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
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“At last came the golden month of the wild folk-- honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year.”
― Wild Folk
― Wild Folk
“It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes embarrasses me, but loving is a gift.”
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“Courage comes from the belly - all else is desperation.”
― Post Office
― Post Office
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