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“And if I sit in that room at the top of the house and I think about my life and if I shut my eyes from time to time and imagine being warm in the summer and I hear the bees buzzing and for a moment I truly am Alice in Wonderland, do you have the heart to tell me I am not?”
― Peter and Alice
― Peter and Alice
“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
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“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
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Irene’s 2025 Year in Books
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