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‘Look what is sticking to the ugly old fir tree,’ said the child, treading on the branches till they crackled under his boots. And the tree saw all the fresh bright flowers in the garden, and then looked at itself, and wished it had
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Fricking depressing!
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
“Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.”
― The Solitary Summer
― The Solitary Summer
“But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.”
― In the Mountains
― In the Mountains
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
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“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
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