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“Just as soon as you get over your fixation with being on an equal financial footing as I am, maybe we can start looking?”
“Maybes never are.”
― Dragonsong
― Dragonsong
“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“Necessity breeds solution.”
― Dragonsinger
― Dragonsinger
“Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had."
[Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]”
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[Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]”
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Josie’s 2025 Year in Books
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