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Paul’s Notes & Highlights

Expecting Someone Taller by Tom Holt

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The human race - we’ll confine our attention to your mob to start with, although what I say is applicable to virtually all mammals - the human race has achieved so much more than any other species in the time it’s been on this earth - a ...more

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Juliet, Naked

by Nick Hornby

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The Things We Left Unsaid

by Emma Kennedy

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Paul’s Quotes

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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“I have noticed that when things happen in one’s imaginings, they never happen in one’s life, so I am curbing myself.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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“Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die.

True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.”
― Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship

tags: amber, courage, fantasy, life

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“Neil is wearing a coat such as I never saw in my life before: checked back and front, but plain sleeves. Perhaps it was made out of two old coats – though I hope not, as that would show him to be poor and his brother mean. And it looked rather a noisily new coat. I expect it’s just American.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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“The cause of that happiness was gone, of course, dead and gone, but still we put our faith in places. We think that if we just lived somewhere different, everything would be okay. We believe that if we paint the stairway a bright new colour, and clear out the closets, our minds will follow. We'll take just about any ray of hope rather than accept that ninety-five per cent of the world we inhabit exists within the confines of our own skulls.”
― Michael Marshall, Bad Things

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