Charlotte Dann

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Charlotte’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed

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Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. Insisting on this story ...more

Flights

by Olga Tokarczuk

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Charlotte’s Quotes

“I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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“Greatest among us are those who can deploy “my friend” to total strangers in a way that is not hollow, but somehow real and deeply felt; those who can make you, within seconds of first contact, believe it.”
― Robin Sloan, Sourdough

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“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning

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“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

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“I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed.”
― Garth Nix, Clariel

tags: cheeky, mogget

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