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Yellowface

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, contemporary-fiction

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Mar 16, 2024 04:59AM

“The hardest part is setting the camera on the tripod, or making the decision to bring the camera out of the car, or just raising the camera to your face, believing, by those actions, that whatever you find before you, whatever you find there, is going to be good.”
― Sally Mann

tags: art, photography

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“Maybe their sorrow over children that never came should have brought the two men closer. But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don't share it there's a good chance that it will drive them apart instead.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

tags: grief, sorrow

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“An old farm is always more than the people under its roof. It is the past as well as the present, and vanished generations have built themselves into it as well as left their footsteps in the worn woodwork of the stair.”
― Henry Beston, The Northern Farm: A Glorious Year on a Small Maine Farm

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“If you did not want much, there was plenty.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

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“When Daniel Boone is uneasy, you know it’s time to watch your step.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

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