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“Why hasn’t a hip alliance emerged that’s concerned about what happens to our intellectual health, our country, and, yes, our happiness when we consume empty-calorie entertainment?”
― I'd Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art for Book Lovers
― I'd Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art for Book Lovers
“Beneath the outward signs of deterioration, the same spirit dwells and looks on with dismay at the devastation the years have wrought.”
― Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
― Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
“I also understand that trophies of any kind don’t really change anything. Awards are fickle. They taunt you with their existence, they promise acceptance and professional fulfillment, but they end up just moving on to someone else before you know it. In the end, the work is still the work, and the desire to keep getting to perform, to keep doing the thing that you love, will always be there regardless of the fullness of your trophy case.”
― Uncle of the Year: & Other Debatable Triumphs
― Uncle of the Year: & Other Debatable Triumphs
“Life has given you a path, even if it’s not your preferred one.”
― Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
― Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
“I came to Oxford looking for a Once-in-a-Lifetime Experience. I chose to experience a lifetime.
I know that one day he will lose to the waterfall, slip behind its turbulent curtain forever, lost to me like something out of a fairy tale. But in our story, there's no villain, no witch, no fairy godmother, no moral imperative or cautionary conclusion. No happily-ever-after.
It just is. It's life.
The water keeps flowing as we come and go.
We were never forever, Jamie and I. Nothing is in this life. But if you love someone and are loved by someone, you might find forever after.
Whatever and wherever it is.”
― My Oxford Year
I know that one day he will lose to the waterfall, slip behind its turbulent curtain forever, lost to me like something out of a fairy tale. But in our story, there's no villain, no witch, no fairy godmother, no moral imperative or cautionary conclusion. No happily-ever-after.
It just is. It's life.
The water keeps flowing as we come and go.
We were never forever, Jamie and I. Nothing is in this life. But if you love someone and are loved by someone, you might find forever after.
Whatever and wherever it is.”
― My Oxford Year
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