“Freud said that laughter is the outward expression of the psyche. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play first house, Saturday night, Glasgow Empire.”
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“She would rather live a hundred lives in three years than waste the little time she had left in these realms.”
― Blood & Steel
― Blood & Steel
“She talked like a woman who knew more books than people.”
― The Hazel Wood
― The Hazel Wood
“How else would you get to live a thousand lives in the span of only one? The beauty of fiction is that it makes you feel things on a visceral level. You can cry with those characters, laugh with them. It teaches you to look at another’s perspective, to have empathy. In nonfiction, you simply learn about something instead of feeling it.”
― The Right Move
― The Right Move
“We ran for many reasons. We ran to protect ourselves. We ran so we would not die, so that our daughters could live.”
― Bloodmarked
― Bloodmarked
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