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but no machinery could close the gap between her world and the world for which I had been summoned to speak.
“It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
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