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A pleasant enough blast from the past - I loved Jilly Cooper in my youth until she started writing her bonk busters (I preferred Jackie Collins). However the articles in this short volume were first published in the late 60s - mid 70s and I suppose i
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“change is the great blessing of mortals. Creatures of the Otherworld are always bound by something—moonlight, iron, running water. But the only thing that can act on humans is time. We are not lovely and static. We are ever-changing, vast as seasons. We are meant to change.”
― The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
― The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
“To find happiness, do what you enjoy. All of you should find something you enjoy doing, something that makes you excited. Instead of pursuing what is recognised and valued by society, do what you like. If you can find it, you’ll not waver easily, no matter what others think. Be brave.”
― Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
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“where the desks looked as they normally did – Reggie’s neat and tidy, Ox’s like a vacuum cleaner and a recycling bin had fought to the death over a takeaway order.”
― Love Will Tear Us Apart
― Love Will Tear Us Apart
“A day well spent is a life well lived.”
― Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
― Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
“When we die, we become nothing, the same nothing we were before we were born, but, of course, this time that nothingness is forever.”
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