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“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“I have seen this in thirty years of bookselling: customers stroking a book’s cover, peeking under the jacket, surreptitiously closing their eyes to smell the valley of pages - this sometimes accompanied by a quiet moan of pleasure- hugging it after purchase, and even giving it a little kiss.”
― The Bookseller's Tale
― The Bookseller's Tale
“When one realizes the tremendous evolution of one's being which occurs in a lifetime one is bound to ask: ...did I learn my lesson here on earth?”
― The Bookseller's Tale
― The Bookseller's Tale
“New ideas, fragile as spring flowers, easily bruised by the tread of the multitude, may yet be cherished by the solitary wanderer.”
― The Black Cloud
― The Black Cloud
“Because not all monsters were monsters in the beginning. Some are monsters born of sorrow.”
― My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises
― My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises
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