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During the next thirty years I came to realize that just as there is more than one way to love a person, so is there more than one way to love a book.
“You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.”
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“What are secrets but things we want to forget? Why then would we keep acquaintance of others who remember them?”
― How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
― How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there's very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it.”
― Shine, Coconut Moon
― Shine, Coconut Moon
“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”
― Jabberwocky and Other Poems
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”
― Jabberwocky and Other Poems
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