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Yellowface

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

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Mar 16, 2024 04:59AM

Joy’s Quotes

“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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“The glassmakers had brought a new source of wealth to Venice, but they had also brought the less appealing habit of burning down the neighborhood.”
― Steven Johnson

tags: glass, science, venice

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“The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast.”
― Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning

tags: december, field, snow

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

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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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