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The world was hers for the reading.
“The world was hers for the reading.”
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Jesmyn Ward
“Some days later, I understood what he was trying to say, that getting grown means learning how to work that current: learning when to hold fast, when to drop anchor, when to let it sweep you up.”
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

Emily St. John Mandel
“Because survival is insufficient.”
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

Lester Bangs
“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.”
Lester Bangs

Yoshida Kenkō
“It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.”
Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

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