“You’re overthinking it.’ ‘I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Connection,” I said. “Not just between one idea and another, but between people.”
― Song of a Captive Bird
― Song of a Captive Bird
“Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ‘is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“I’d long since discovered the pleasure of breaking a rule, but that day I coupled it with an even greater pleasure: telling a story.”
― Song of a Captive Bird
― Song of a Captive Bird
“By insulting people’s intelligence you lose any chance to educate them, and in refusing the validity of their perspective you’ve denied yourself the main purpose of making art.”
― Song of a Captive Bird
― Song of a Captive Bird
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