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“How can a person claim to love you and yet want you to do things that suit only them? Udenna was like that.”
― The Thing Around Your Neck
― The Thing Around Your Neck
“It's all right to forget, you know, he said. It's good to. In fact, we have to forget things sometimes. Forgetting it is important. We do it on purpose. It means we get a bit of a rest. Are you listening? We have to forget. Or we'd never sleep ever again.”
― Autumn
― Autumn
“But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff.”
― Autumn
― Autumn
“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?
Elif Shafak”
― The Forty Rules of Love
Elif Shafak”
― The Forty Rules of Love
“Even if we didn't know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they'd tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
500 Great Books By Women
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500 Great Books By Women A Reader's Guide to the Worlds of Women's Writing Be sure to check out the bookshelf and see if you've reviewed any of the ...more
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