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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." 8 hours, 55 min ago

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

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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation?”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

Boubacar Boris Diop
“In my heart of hearts I knew I was wrong. The World Cup was about to begin in the United States. The planet was interested in nothing else. And in any case, whatever happened in Rwanda, it would always be the same old story of blacks beating up on each other. Even Africans would say, during half-time of every match, “They’re embarrassing us, they should stop killing each other like that.” Then they’ll go on to something else. [9-10]”
Boubacar Boris Diop, Murambi. The Book of Bones

Pat Barker
“I thought: Suppose, suppose just once, once, all these centuries, the slippery gods keep their word and Achilles is granted eternal glory in return for his early death under the walls of Troy...? What will they make of us, the people of those unimaginably distant times? One thing I do know: they won't want the brutal reality of conquest and slavery. They won't want to be told about the massacres of men and boys, the enslavement of women and girls. They won't want to know we were living in a rape camp. No, they'll go for something altogether softer. A love story, perhaps? I just hope they manage to work out who the lovers were.”
Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

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