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Yules said:
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I was turned on to this anthology by Adina.I'm reading it out of order and keeping notes here.
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“We are all someone's monster.”
― Six of Crows
― Six of Crows
“To write of the self is to write in the shape of a wound that never stops opening.”
― Under the Sign of the Labyrinth
― Under the Sign of the Labyrinth
“Life is a fragile hybrid throbbing, at each instant, between being and nothingness.”
― The Book is a Ghost: Thoughts and Paroxysms for Going Beyond
― The Book is a Ghost: Thoughts and Paroxysms for Going Beyond
“My brother once showed me a piece of quartz that contained, he said, some trapped water older than all the seas in our world. He held it up to my ear. ‘Listen,’ he said, ‘life and no escape.”
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
“Finally, in Bosnia I forgot my own name. That’s an excellent basis for starting this course, I thought. Just as the thought of you is an excellent basis for a start. So as not to forget your name as well, I had to keep writing it down on water. On the Sava River.
I don’t know if you know that forests migrate?”
― Кутија за писање
I don’t know if you know that forests migrate?”
― Кутија за писање
Reading Classics, Chronologically Through the Ages
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This group began with a book called The Well-Educated Mind (TWEM) by Susan Wise Bauer, which is a wonderful guide to “The Great Books.” TWEM presents ...more
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