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“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“All my life,” she said, “I have been told ‘go’ and ‘come.’ I am told how I will live, and I am told how I must die. I must be a man’s servant and a mare for his pleasure, or I must hide myself behind walls and surrender my flesh to a cold, silent god. I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me. Please. Please let me help you.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale