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Jason’s Quotes

“Rules existed for a reason: if you followed them, you would succeed; if you didn't, you might burn the world to the ground.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

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“Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society, we are, and what we know. All the wonders and failures, all the champions and villains, all the legends and ideas and revelations of a culture last forever in its books.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

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“How unlucky that one person has the power to determine the shape of another person's life.”
― Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us

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“Like after a prairie fire...It seems like the end of the world. The earth is all scorched and black and everything green is gone. But after the burning, the soil is richer, and new things can grow....People are like that, too, you know. They start over. They find a way.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

tags: fire, hope

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“Take your place, then. Look at what happened from every side and consider all the other ways it could have gone. Consider, even, an Africa unconquered altogether. Imagine those first Portuguese adventurers approaching the shore, spying on the jungle’s edge through their fitted brass lenses. Imagine that by some miracle of dread or reverence they lowered their spyglasses, turned, set their riggings, sailed on. Imagine all who came after doing the same. What would that Africa be now? All I can think of is the other okapi, the one they used to believe in. A unicorn that could look you in the eye.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: africa, alternative-histories, freedom

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Bangladesh — 1492 members — last activity Jul 26, 2025 03:00AM
Goodreads users from Bangladesh, who like to read, and like to discuss about the books they love.

South Asian Literature — 1241 members — last activity Jul 22, 2024 08:37AM
For readers around the world interested in literature from or about South Asia! Countries of interest include India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhut ...more

বাংলার বইমেলা (Book Fair of Bangla) — 255 members — last activity Jun 04, 2025 12:26AM
'বাংলার বইমেলা' গ্রুপ বাংলাদেশের বইমেলার যাবতীয় খবর দেয়ার লক্ষ্যে সৃষ্ট গুডরিডস্ গ্রুপ। বাংলাদেশের সকল জেলার অনুষ্ঠিত বইমেলার খবরাখবর রাখার চেষ্টা চলব ...more