Amy

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Amy’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (550)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1372)
just-could-not-finish‎ (43)
to-get-back-to‎ (16)
bookclub-recommendations‎ (12)
about-to-read‎ (6)

maybe-another-time‎ (3)
favorites‎ (75)
bookclub-reads‎ (41)
book-club-possibles‎ (34)
audiobooks‎ (32)
three-and-a-half-stars‎ (30)
g-of-r‎ (28)

possibly‎ (21)
happy-birthday-books‎ (19)
priority‎ (15)
hmmmm‎ (13)
books-i-own‎ (9)
four-and-a-half-stars‎ (9)
bb-book-group‎ (6)

to-own‎ (6)
need-to-renew‎ (5)
rbc‎ (5)
places-in-time‎ (3)

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Amy’s Quotes

“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”
― Jeanette Winterson

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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

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“You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.”
― Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo

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“My needlework teacher suffered from a problem of vision. She recognised things according to expectation and environment. If you were in a particular place, you expected to see particular things. Sheep and hills, sea and fish; if there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs. Jones and talk about fishcakes. But most likely, she's do what most people do when confronted with something they don't understand. Panic.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

tags: expectation, jeanette-winterson, oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit, unexpected-things

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