Sheila MacKenzie
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“When she stamped her foot, it made a strange thud on the desolate beach. Like a heartbeat.”
― The Bay of Love and Sorrows
― The Bay of Love and Sorrows
“Reading changes our lives, and our lives change our reading.”
― Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
― Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
“There are few more powerful mirrors of the human brain's astonishing ability to rearrange itself to learn a new intellectual function than the act of reading. Underlying the brain's ability to learn reading lies its protean capacity to make new connections among structures and circuits originally devoted to other more basic brain processes that have enjoyed a longer existence in human evolution, such as vision and spoken language. [...] we come into the world programmed with the capacity to change what is given to us by nature, so that we can go beyond it. We are, it would seem from the start, genetically poised for breakthroughs.”
― Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
― Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
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“Now you here and dealing not with him, who is dead, but with me, who is sitting here.”
“But,” he said in exasperation, “that’s not the way it should be.”
“I agree,” Janie King said.
“You agree,” he said, showing some surprise in his voice.
“Yes,” said Janie with a smile. “No idiot should ever be in your position. But since an idiot is and I am dealing with him, it is bloody unfortunate for us both.” She rose.
David Adams Richards River of the Brokenhearted”
― River of the Brokenhearted
“But,” he said in exasperation, “that’s not the way it should be.”
“I agree,” Janie King said.
“You agree,” he said, showing some surprise in his voice.
“Yes,” said Janie with a smile. “No idiot should ever be in your position. But since an idiot is and I am dealing with him, it is bloody unfortunate for us both.” She rose.
David Adams Richards River of the Brokenhearted”
― River of the Brokenhearted
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