Neda Lankarany

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Neda’s Quotes

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

tags: books, e-readers, kindle, reading

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“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
― Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

tags: inspirational, readers, readers-and-writers, reading, reading-books, reasons-for-reading

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“No one tells you before you procreate that the hardest thing about being a good parent is that you never feel like one.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

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“You try to be a good parent, in every way, but you never know how. It's not a difficult job. Just impossible.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

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“Every parent will take five minutes in the car outside the house from time to time, just sitting there. Just breathing and gathering the strength to head back inside to all of their responsibilities. The suffocating expectation of being good, coping. Every parent will take ten seconds in the stairwell occasionally, key in hand, not putting it in the lock.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime

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