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“I’m not an animal anymore, sister,” she said, first scanning the empty ward as if about to disclose a momentous secret. “I don’t need to eat, not now. I can live without it. All I need is sunlight.”
― The Vegetarian
― The Vegetarian
“The fundamental skill of all mothers—the management of time—was beyond her. She measured time in pages.”
― Swing Time
― Swing Time
“A peculiar idea. Once you’re alive in this world, you’re responsible.”
― Swing Time
― Swing Time
“I don’t mean that my mother didn’t love me but she was not a domestic person: her life was in her mind. The fundamental skill of all mothers—the management”
― Swing Time
― Swing Time
“Reading teaches me the answers to the problems I haven't had yet, or to problems I didn't even know how to describe. And when I feel less alone with what troubles me, it is easier to find solutions. A book to me is like a friend, a shelter, advice, an argument with someone who cares enough to argue with me for a better answer than the one we both already have. Books aren't just a door to another world-each book is part of a door to the whole world, a door that always has more behind it.”
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