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Time of the Child

by Niall Williams (Goodreads Author)

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"'Medicine was not nothing, from the anguish of spiritual meaninglessness there was reprieve in aiding another, though there remained the mystery why caring for the sick was easier than for the well, and for the stranger than your own blood. They were mysteries he couldn't solve...'" — 17 hours, 28 min ago

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Claire’s Quotes

“I was overwhelmed by an undefinable sensation, too serene to be called anxiety, but unpleasant enough not to go unnoticed.”
― Guadalupe Nettel, The Accidentals: Stories

tags: anxiety, attention, discomfort, feeling, sensation, within-you

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“Nothing made me forget the world like reading did. Nothing made me think about the world like reading did. Nothing else filled me up. Nothing else emptied me out. Sentences and paragraphs would drift through my head like clouds.”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me

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“There was every reason to feel natural joy in the world, but for the one that makes it accessible. When your spirit is uneasy, stillness can be a kind of suffering. And when you're young, the unlived life in front of you, all that future, urgent and unreachable, can be unbearable.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

tags: anticipation, desire, imagination, joy-of-life, life, youth

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“Ideas move in space and time. They swim like fish. They drift like pollen. They migrate like birds. Sometimes their movement carries them right around the world, and they find new niches in which to flourish.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Is a River Alive?

tags: ideas, inspiration, living-rivers, nature, paradigm-shift, perspectives, rights-of-nature

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“Holding out was a quirk in human nature and those who lived in the Last Minute had found not only was there no penalty in lateness but often a bonus not granted the timely.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

tags: human-nature, last-minute, lateness, patience, quirks, time, waiting

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