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Louise Louise said: " Good thing I read the book before I saw the film. The film is appalling, one of the worst book-to-film adaptations I've ever seen.

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"Kitty should run off with this young wan Varenka instead of marrying Levin who is old enough to be her da. I hope there's fan-fiction written where this happens." 9 hours, 8 min ago

 
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish it was not. But it’s a lie. I came from a country where race was not an issue; I did not think of myself as black and I only became black when I came to America. When you are black in America and you fall in love with a white person, race doesn’t matter when you’re alone together because it’s just you and your love. But the minute you step outside, race matters. But we don’t talk about it. We don’t even tell our white partners the small things that piss us off and the things we wish they understood better, because we’re worried they will say we’re overreacting, or we’re being too sensitive. And we don’t want them to say, Look how far we’ve come, just forty years ago it would have been illegal for us to even be a couple blah blah blah, because you know what we’re thinking when they say that? We’re thinking why the fuck should it ever have been illegal anyway? But we don’t say any of this stuff. We let it pile up inside our heads and when we come to nice liberal dinners like this, we say that race doesn’t matter because that’s what we’re supposed to say, to keep our nice liberal friends comfortable. It’s true. I speak from experience.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

André Aciman
“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

David  Mitchell
“Her only friends on the estate were books, and books can talk but do not listen.”
David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

David  Mitchell
“Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.”
David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

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