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“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
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“Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside?”
― The Ice Queen
― The Ice Queen
“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
that beak which grips her, she becomes.”
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that beak which grips her, she becomes.”
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“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― The Giving Tree
― The Giving Tree
“I find myself subject to the entire range of emotions and reactions that a great book will call forth from its reader. I chuckle, laugh out loud, smile wistfully, cringe, widen my eyes in surprise, and even feel sadness--all from the neatly ordered rows of words and their explanations. All of the human emotions and experiences are right here in this dictionary, just as they would be in any fine work of literature. They just happen to be alphabetized.”
― Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
― Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
Shannon’s 2025 Year in Books
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