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“Books allow you to take flight, unlike the chicken wings I stapled to my back before eating them.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

“Tis to create, and in creating live
        A being more intense, that we endow
        With form our fancy, gaining as we give
        The life we image, even as I do now.
        What am I? Nothing: but not so art thou,
        Soul of my thought! with whom I traverse earth,
        Invisible but gazing, as I glow
        Mix'd with thy spirit, blended with thy birth,
And feeling still with thee in my crush'd feelings' dearth.”
― George Gordon Byron, Selected Poems

“But remember that in order to symbolize everything to everyone, you will be both loved and hated.”
― Bonnie Huie, Four Essays

“He whispers in her ear, and she basks in his attention, trumpeting happily at the sight of him.

Doesn't she remember?”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants