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“I like Miss Lick. Arty always said that was important. “Find a way to like them,” he said. “Like them every minute that you’re with them. If you can like them they’ll be helpless against you.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

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“My mother—with all the embarrassment and hurt that she caused me in my youth—ended up giving me the drive and the fire I needed to be more and to do more.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

tags: ambitions, dream, driven, family, growth, hopeful-love, love, motivating, teaching

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“There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, insight, mystery, trauma

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“In the rose garden, the flowers are maneuvering toward the winter sunshine and the alluring sound of the koi pond’s waterfall makes you think it has a crush on you. You offer no resistance—you are done (at least temporarily) with the “regular” world.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

tags: deep, descriptive, fiction, love, make-believe, meaningful, nature, refreshing, romance, self-reflecting

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“I wanted to get rid of a certain aspect of my character. I was performing a kind of self-abortion with those aspirin. It worked for a while. Then it stopped; but I had no heart to try again.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

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