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she isn’t ready to forgo cigarettes so leans on the riverside wall and lights one, hates herself for it the adverts told her generation it would make them appear grownup, glamorous, powerful, clever, desirable and above all, cool no one ...more
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“I have told people that writing this book has been like brushing away dirt from a fossil. What a load of shit. It has been like hacking away at a freezer with a screwdriver.”
Amy Poehler

Mindy Kaling
“If I took the nicer subway, it meant I had to go through Manhattan every morning to get there, and that took a really long time. The subway line that ran the short way was the G line, which stopped exclusively in Brooklyn and Queens. That might be the only time the word exclusive has been used to describe the G train.”
Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
tags: nyc, subway

Anthony Doerr
“When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

Kiera Cass
“But even now I know this isn't a fairy tale. I know that we'll have hard times, confusing times. I know that things won't always happen the way we want them to and that we'll have to work to remember that we chose this. It won't be perfect, not all the time.

This isn't happily ever after.

It's so much more than that.”
Kiera Cass, The One

“The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.”
Amy Poehler, Yes Please

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