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The Faraway Nearby
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"Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers into it… They are, ideally, places where nothing happens, and where everything that has happened is stored up to be remembered and relived, the place where the world is folded up into boxes of paper. Every book is a door that opens into another world… engrossing books are landscapes into which readers vanish. (Flight)" 8 hours, 13 min ago

 
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“I have found that when you start to wonder about who you've hurt in this life, you can easily lose your mind.”
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Sally Hepworth
“As far as I'm concerned calling your child Sailor was a declaration that you had far too much time on your hands and anyone who attempted to name their child that should be issued the name Eustace or Darold by the government as punishment.”
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Sally Hepworth
“A silent tear slips down my cheek. It strikes me that, with all the cruelties in this world, there is still nothing quite as dangerous as kindness.”
Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

Tayari Jones
“you gave me the care that people save for kin.”
Tayari Jones, Kin

Sally Hepworth
“Friends are like oxygen. If you’ve been blessed enough to have always been surrounded by friends, you might think I’m overplaying this. I don’t blame you. If you’d always been surrounded by air, you wouldn’t think to credit it for your very existence either. But I’ve spent much of my life gasping for breath, so I promise you, it’s true. Friends are like oxygen.”
Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

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