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THIS BOOK WAS SOOOO INCREDIBLE. I had high expectations going in and it just blew them out of the water. I just finished and am already in a withdrawal from the world and characters that Leigh Bardugo amazingly crafted. AHHHH!!!!
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“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”
― Self Reliance
― Self Reliance
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
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